How to configure email

[eluser]taewoo[/eluser]
inparo.. actually... i have this quarky issue.

so i created the application/config/email.php file with all the SMTP parameters... then blanked out all the corresponding parameters in application/library/Email.php... This works on my local dev environment (i.e. my laptop with WAMP on it).

If I copy the setup to my DreamHost LAMP production (i.e. exact same files), it keeps telling me I didn't specify the SMTP host thus no go. I have to physically copy + paste the parameters from config/email to library/email for it to work.

Any thoughts about this?