How to Use the SMTP Mailer Module in Dolphin 7

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 April 2012 09:15 Written by Mscott Friday, 20 April 2012 12:00

In today’s article, I will show you how to use the “SMTP Mailer” module with your Dolphin 7 based site. Before we begin, we need to install the module. A step by step guide on installing the Dolphin 7 base modules can be found here.

Once we have the module installed, we can access the settings by clicking “SMTP Mailer” under the “Modules” menu on the left side of the admin screen. From this screen, we can configure the mailer to our current server settings.

Using the Dolphin 7 Mass Mailer

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 10:05 Written by Mscott Friday, 25 November 2011 12:00

Hello and welcome! In today’s blog, we will explore the Dolphin 7 mass mailer. It can be used to send an email to all your site’s members and also anyone who has subscribed via the subscribe block on the homepage.

There is one important thing to cover before we get started. The Dolphin cron job MUST be setup for the mass mailer to correctly send out emails. More info about the cron job can be found HERE.

Configuring MAIL with PEAR and PHPMAILER

Last Updated on Sunday, 13 November 2011 11:08 Written by Alvaro A Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:18

ABSTRACT

I am going to describe hereunto the different steps you would need to take in order to allow the mail system that we have, and your scripts to work together. The current system uses SMTP authentication, more secure and aimed at preventing the effects and consequences from spammers. This is aimed at Windows users mainly.

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There are 2 popular ways of doing it. One is using the PEAR library and the other is using another application called PHP MAILER.

The PEAR library