Can you provide us with your Joomla backend and FTP access at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site so we can better have a check?

Arlex, its setup. Thank you.

Thanks for looking into this guys.

Hi Earl,

I am seeing this Joomla error on the frontend after registration(http://take.ms/lqPMu). I suspect there may be issue with Joomla's global config mail settings or maybe some sort of restriction from the hosting provider?

Perhaps you can ask them to take a look.

If you set the system environment to 'System'(http://take.ms/1YCK4), you can see that the email is generated properly in email activities.

I'll dig into this further. The thing that was strange is if you send the activation manually by selecting the user/resend activation it goes through.

I'm thinking of trying the gmail settings for outbound servers to see if that helps. My other sites dont have this problem.

Hey Earl,

Based on the error that my colleague sent earlier, it does seem as though that Joomla wasn't able to instantiate a mail instance to send out e-mails. I am not entirely why it was working at the back end for you as I can't access the back end to test this but chances are the e-mail would not be sent out to an external e-mail even if you click on the resend activation e-mail.

I'm suspecting It's a host issue- the strange thing is I have another account with the same host, and this doesnt happen.

However, I did switch to Gmail as the mail server, and its working perfectly. Here is what I did:

Use Gmail as your mailer, below are the SMTP config and it works perfectly (even on localhost)

Go to Global Configuration -> Server -> Mail Settings

Send Mail : Yes

Mailer : SMTP

From Email : youremail@gmail.com

From Name : name_goes_here

SMTP Authentication : Yes

SMTP Security : SSL

SMTP Port : 465

SMTP Username : youremail@gmail.com

SMTP Password : your_gmail_account_password

SMTP Host : smtp.gmail.com

Hey Earl,

I see. Thanks for updating us on the issue and glad to know that Gmail mail server works for you.

Also, thanks for sharing the SMTP setup.

Feel free to start a new thread if you have any other issues.

Regards.