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I have an event where I've enabled Tell A Friend.
On the Tell A Friend page, when I press "Send Your Message" I get the following error.

A error occurred when CiviCRM attempted to send an email (via SMTP). If you received this error after submitted on online contribution or event registration - the transaction was completed, but we were unable to send the email receipt.

This is probably related to a problem in your Outbound Email Settings (Administer CiviCRM » Global Settings » Outbound Email). Possible causes are:

    * Your SMTP Username or Password are incorrect.
    * Your SMTP Server (machine) name is incorrect.
    * You need to use an Port other than the default port 25 in your environment.
    * Your SMTP server is just not responding right now (it is down for some reason).

Check this page for more information.

The mail library returned the following error message: Failed to set sender: @localhost [SMTP: recipient is not recognized (code: 501, response: <@localhost>: no local part)]

Now I know my SMTP settings are OK - the confirmation email is sent correctly.
And I know that my event email settings are OK - the confirmation email is delivered from the sending address I specified.
I've looked through the forums - http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5736.0.html is the closest match I could find, and I've double-checked the event email settings.

How does Tell A Friend decide which sending address to use?
How do I set that up?

If your Test Mail is working, I have no idea why you are getting this error

Kurund,

Thanks for your prompt response. My issue is not with CiviMail (which is how I read your response) but with the Tell A Friend feature for a CiviEvent.

Thanks,
Ken

By Test mail I meant,  Global Settings >> Outbound Mail , Save and Send Test Mail.

I checked with your scenario still not getting any errors. Can you try to replicate this on http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org.

Kurund