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[marcello]

Hi,

I am having trouble to make eform to work with my host provider (DreamHost). I am required to use SMTP, with no authentication.

I have made the following changes to eform.inc.php to add SMTP method. The change was done to all sections that have the class PHPMailer in the eform.inc.php
...
$mail = new PHPMailer();
#$mail->IsMail();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
$mail->Mailer = "smtp";

...

I am testing it with the default "contact us" page. hit on submit and receive the successful notification, but no email... 

So I tested a similar approach  (below) outside modx and phpmailer is able to send out emails. Any ideas?  Any property or parameter  I might be missing from the code above?

<?php
require("./manager/includes/controls/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(true);        // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "localhost";  // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;    // turn off SMTP authentication
$mail->From = "test@domain";
$mail->FromName = "anyname";
$mail->AddAddress("xyz@yahoo.com", "Name1");
$mail->IsHTML(true);       // set email format to HTM
$mail->Subject = "PHPmailer example";
$mail->Body    = "This is a test of email 2";
if(!$mail->Send()){
        echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
        echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        exit;
        }
?>


Thanks,
marcello

[TobyL]

In your test outside eForm you have

Code:

$mail->IsSMTP(true);        // set mailer to use SMTP

and in the eForm code you have

Code:

$mail->IsSMTP();

Could that have something to do with it?

[marcello]

The "true" is not a required parameter. But I added it to the eform.inc.php and got same results. 

thx

[shamblett]

Check your localhost mail logs when you hit submit,  this should tell you how far the mail request is getting and what's happening to it.

[marcello]

I confirmed with my host provider, and messages are not reaching the mailserver.  The only messages found on the mailserver log are the ones I sent out using the test script outside Modx. So Modx is not reaching the mailserver... Any ideas on where else should I look? And I see no error message when submitting the form...

Code:

/var/log/mail.log.1.gz:Dec  2 20:13:29 pants postfix/smtp[18692]:
43BEB14C009: to=<xyx@yahoo.com>,
relay=e.mx.mail.yahoo.com[216.39.53.1], delay=1, status=sent (250 ok
dirdel)
/var/log/mail.log.1.gz:Dec  2 20:15:27 pants postfix/smtp[18693]:
ABC4414C008: to=<xyx@yahoo.com>,
relay=g.mx.mail.yahoo.com[206.190.53.191], delay=3, status=sent (250 ok
dirdel)
/var/log/mail.log.1.gz:Dec  2 20:17:02 pants postfix/smtp[18635]:
7335214C004: to=<xyx@yahoo.com>,
relay=c.mx.mail.yahoo.com[216.39.53.2], delay=300, status=sent (250 ok
dirdel)
/var/log/mail.log.1.gz:Dec  2 20:35:44 pants postfix/smtp[19535]:
1BF1214C00A: to=<xyx@yahoo.com>,
relay=d.mx.mail.yahoo.com[66.196.82.7], delay=1, status=sent (250 ok
dirdel)

[shamblett]

Ok, on the one that fails i.e in the internal MODx code you do this :-

$mail->Mailer = "smtp";

You don't do this on the example that works. I believe this sets what the smtp mail daemon is which may be wrong for your platform, delete ths line and try your e-form again, watching the logs of course.

[marcello]

All the PHPMailer code look like this now. I have also updated to version 1.4.4.5

Code:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
#$mail->IsMail();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
#$mail->Mailer = "smtp";
$mail->IsHTML($isHtml);

Same results. Nothing reaches the mailserver.

Just in case.. here is the contents of my form page.

Code:

[!eForm? &formid=`ContactForm` &subject=`[+subject+]` &to=`[(email_sender)]` &ccsender=`1` &tpl=`ContactForm` &report=`ContactFormReport` &invalidClass=`invalidValue` &requiredClass=`requiredValue` &cssStyle=`ContactStyles` &gotoid=`46`  !]

Thanks,

[dev_cw]

Try changing &to=`[(email_sender)]` to &to=`youremail@address.com`

[BobRay]

This is line 199 or the class.phpmailer.php file:

Code:

var $SMTPDebug    = false;

I'm not sure if it will accept that as an argument, you may have to edit the line. It might give you a clue.

[marcello]

Thanks guys...

Changing  &to=`[(email_sender)]` to &to=`youremail@address.com`  worked fine. The email_sender was already defined in the configuration, and I could not understand why it was not being parsed. 

So I checked the eform.inc.php once again and changed the following:

Code:

Version 1.4.4.5

Commented Line 458 -> #AddAddressToMailer($mail,"to",$to);
Added Line 459 ->  AddAddressToMailer($mail,"to",$modx->config['emailsender']);

This way  I do not have to hard code the email address on the contact form and eform will use the "to" from the email address (emailsender) defined under manager->tools->configuration->user->email address

Thank you very much.
Marcello

[BobRay]

Good solution. Glad you got it sorted.