Translations:Global settings/7/en

Email settings

• Default site admin email: This is the default email address of the site administrator, and it is used for system messages and contact options
• Administrator name: The real name of the site administrator
• Email method: This determines how emails are being sent. The following options are available:
  • PHP (default value): Use internal PHP mail function
  • Sendmail: Use Sendmail mailer
  • SMTP: based on SMTP relaying. Use this setting when you are running LimeSurvey on a host that is not your mail server
    • Make sure that you are using your SMTP configured email (Global settings ⇒ Email settings) if you use SMTP; otherwise there might be a chance that the following error is displayed: 'SMTP -> ERROR: RCPT not accepted from server: 553 5.7.1 : Sender address rejected: not owned by user'
  • Qmail: Set this if you are running the Qmail mailer
  • Plugin: Using this you can select a custom email plugin to use.