phpbb3 and email (SMTP)

I'm beating my head against the keyboard trying to get email working reliably from phpbb3. I thought php mail might be the issue, so I attempted to set up SMTP - without success. I have tried multiple variations on my SMTP username and authentication. Does anyone have any tips on setting this up?

i don't get it, are you using your domain as the SMTP server or pan.dreamhost.org or what? should just be your domain for mail server. I would'nt sugest php mail, its not truly greate, but smtp should work, just use your domain as SMTP server and your login user and pass for auth, or unless you use a pasific email account then the login would be mailaddr@yourdomain.com and password being whatever. If this doesn't work, contact the phpbb3 support team and ask them if they know what its problem is, could just be a phpbb3 bug!

I hope this was helpfull, Yes I do try to make sense.