by Gerrard Shaw.
We're running Moodle 2.4 on CentOS 6.4 and one of the final configuration tasks I need to perform is to sort out Moodle automated email (forum alerts, messages etc). I've found this link that mentions setting the relay directly in the Moodle DB:
Was about to do this but found out that we also want to use some email forms on the same server (embedded in Moodle via iFrame) that use PHP Sendmail.
I've found that settings for that are configured in PHP.ini and it got me wondering what Moodle uses for its mail functions and whether changing the PHP settings will have any effect on the Moodle side i.e. if I set the relay in PHP.ini do I still need to make the change in the Moodle database?