confirmation email not sent

Question

I am working in magento 1.9.2.2.When a new customer registers, the message is displayed saying that the confirmation mail is sent but confirmation mail is not sent.Also I have already set system->configuration->customer->customer configuration->Require emails confirmation=yes.Should anything be done additionally.Kindly anyone guide me.

Answer 1

If you have a new magento installation, and you notice that the join process takes a very long time to complete, your sendmail is probably the source.Some new servers dont have sendmail setup properly and you need to adjust a few things.For slow email from the app, edit 3 files. 1) /etc/resolv.conf, add search whateveryourdomainnameis.com in before the nameservers.

[root@Web1 etc]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search whateveryourdomain.com
nameserver 123.123.123.12
nameserver 123.123.123.12

2) /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Uncomment the line 0 HostsFile=/etc/hosts

# hosts file (normally /etc/hosts)
O HostsFile=/etc/hosts

3) /etc/hosts add www.whateveryourdomainnameis.com and whateveryourdomainnameis.com to the IP address for this server.

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
10.183.131.193 Web1
22.222.344.42 Web1
127.0.0.1 www.whateveryourdomainnameis.com whateveryourdomainnameis.com

4) Also I added sendmail to the chkconfig to make sure it restarts if the server restarts

[root@Web1 etc]# chkconfig sendmail on