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When i go to send an email through the tools > communicate tab, the email will send and then the script will continue and produce the following error page after 20 - 30 seconds:

Unable to send email at this time.

220 skoda.electric.net ESMTP

hello: [hostname]
250-SIZE 268435456
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP


from: 250 OK


to: 250 Accepted


data: 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself




The following SMTP error was encountered:

Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.

Any thoughts?

Sounds like your smtp server isn’t sending a timely acknowledgement back that it has sent the message.

Do you have your email settings config’d properly in the Admin -> Email Configuration panel? Check the Guide for details.

You also can turn on debugging there to get more info.

No, he’s got his Email Configuration sent to “SMTP” which tries to use PHP SMTP which his server isn’t configured for.

If you really do want to use PHP SMTP, you need to configure it within your servers php.ini (@see http://php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php) file or change your e-mail protocol to PHP mail and just let PHP handle it.