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Ok.... So I investigated this a little bit. I think emails are working. I tested the only problem I encountered while testing was that it wouldn't send to me personally. I think this might be due to the email being the same as the default system email.
So now that I thought I got this happily setup I went to setup my external mail account to fetch mail via pop.
However when I do this I get an error in the configuration page that says....
Mail Account: Optional setting for fetching incoming emails. Mail fetching must be enabled with autocron active or external cron setup.
Status=Enable Then it says. IMAP doesn't exist. PHP must be compiled with IMAP enabled.
I think I did get this error when I did the install however I don't see it in my system logs. So im not really sure what I need to do. I keep readin "auto cron needs to be setup" I cant find any info on where to get it or how to set it up though. Apologies for my ignorance. Im a total beginner here.