ATutor

Course Email

• perryr
  

  2004-06-16 20:35:38

  Course Email

  Hi Greg:
  
  I know this question is not really an ATutor problem but perhaps you could just offer some advice.
  
  We now have ATutor 1.4 and ACollab working with our extensive course material (about 500 hours worth) but the teachers have a small problem. We have one solution to the and that is by using ACollab for sending emails to all the students.
  
  A great many of our students do not have an email address on our intranet server - i.e. hotmail, yahoo, etc and when the teacher sends a course email they do not receive it. I presume that this is because sendmail is not setup to use the university's email server to send and receive email. Would I have to change the sendmail config so that it uses the university email server for the pop and smtp?
  
  I have no idea really but am I looking in the right direction?
  
  Perry

• greg
  

  2004-06-18 14:00:57

  Mail required

  I know any course I've taken, an email address has been required, and it is required to register on an ATutor system.
  
  ATutor will use whatever email system is available to send email.
  
  It should make no difference whether an email address is internal or from a public site. Perhaps there are filters in place on hotmail etc that are not letting ATutor mail through. You'll have to talk to the hotmail folk about that.
  
  Excuse me if I'm not making sense, I don't totally understand what the problem is from your description. Perhaps you could rephrase the problem. Also describe the system ATutor is running on.