# Email Config Issues

**URL:** <https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/email-config-issues/374>\
**Category:** App Configuration\
**Created:** [September 19, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/email-config-issues/374 "2014-09-19T18:04:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![toddappleton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/toddappleton/32/159_2.png) [@toddappleton](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/toddappleton)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/email-config-issues/374/5 "2014-11-11T19:57:22Z")

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There’s a problem in 1.8.1 and older where email services configured for SMTP are attempting to call sendmail instead. I tested this on an AWS Bitnami install. On top of that, sendmail was failing because the following line in php.ini was commented out. To get sendmail working uncomment this line (or similar) in php.ini and restart apache.

```
sendmail_path = "env -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"

```

The fix for SMTP will be in the next release 1.8.2 due out this week. The problem with email type not sticking in the admin console will also be fixed.

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