Redmine email notifications not sending

[Jeremy Davis]

Bug reported and fix provided by TS in the forums (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20120915/redmine-email-notification-fix-solved)

Running Redmine 12.0.1 on Proxmox VE 2.1.14, Postfix email notifications did not work for me out of the box.

image = debian-6-turnkey-redmine_12.0.1_i386
SSH'ed to the appliance
cd /var/www/redmine/config/
nano configuration.yml
made changes below and saved
Original:

production:
 email_delivery:
   delivery_method: :smtp
   smtp_settings:
     address: "localhost"
     port: 25
Changed to:

production:
 email_delivery:
   delivery_method: :sendmail
   smtp_settings:
     address: 127.0.0.1
     port: 25
Now working

Reference post at redmine.org http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/6641

[Jeremy Davis (jedmeister)]

Even though technically it isn't fixed, I have marked this Fix committed for two reasons:

1) v13.x will include an updated version (So the fix will be released then).
2) Afix is provided as above...