So another fun little learning lesson today with the new mail server.. I could send and receive emails internally no problem(sending from me@me.com to you@me.com) but the moment I wanted to send something from another mail server to the new one well it wasn’t having any of it.
As with all things there are always a million reasons for something to go wrong and mine was reason #445,002 
I ended up reading a thread that had enough similarities as me to open my eyes to what was going on. I had told postfix to have the smtp server on port 10587 for security reasons and in the end the MTA wasn’t setup to connect to that port.. Booerns. In the end I just said ‘stuff it’ and put it back to the default settings, so now my smtp server is running on the default 587 port and everything is working peachy keen. So if this is happening to you, go into your /etc/postfix/master.cf and anywhere you changed smoething like:
smtp inet n – n – - smtpd
into:
10587 inet n – n – - smtpd
go and change it back to the way it was and see if that resolves your issue
Drupal myself and I – Chapter 7: Obvious but Overlooked
Jul 1
Posted by admin in Technology | No Comments
The first Obvious yet overlooked thing I just got around to setting up with a module called ‘Comment Notify’
Comment notify is a great little module that I didn’t even think about over the past week and a half of drupal setup but it is such a common sense one that I wonder how it was overlooked. Especially when considering the way the forum’s are setup. This module was actually quick and painless to setup. You just head over to http://drupal.org/project/comment_notify download it, install it and then the configuration is pretty straight forward if you follow the directions. But without your users will not be able to subscribe to forum threads and with it everyone can be auto-subscribed to their own comments which is great to keep the team communication going full bore. Something that is so important when you are organizing people around the world
The second Obvious but Overlooked aspect of my setup was the fact that as an admin my view is going to be different than my teams view. For some things this is a no brainer like admin menu’s and configuration screens, however when I am outside of the administration area of Drupal I just assumed that everyone would be seeing what I am seeing. Not so much. After writing a big long instructional article on cataloging submissions and organising assets I had one of my team members inform me that half of the links and buttons I referenced in the article didn’t exist for him. So I created a quick dummy account, granted it the same perms as the other users and lo’ and behold I had 1/2 of the menu’s than with my admin account. I just had to go through the roles and permissions setup for the users and grant them all access to the modules that they needed to use but definitely something to check after you spend a week going nuts and setting up a flurry of features. Double chck that your users have access to them
Tags: access, admin, comment notify, drupal, email, notification, obvious, overlooked, roles, users