[solved] Emails not sending

Hi

I have a problem with emails not sending from an add-on (Quip). I think this is tied more to the main system, so hopefully this is the right forum.

I get a server error ’Sender Address Rejected: domain not found’, which I’d like to fix with an -f parameter for a valid from address. (I’m guessing there’s a PHP mail() somewhere). I had a quick grep through the add-on code, but I don’t really understand how add-ons work and I can’t find what I want.

Could someone point me in the right direction? Maybe I’m missing a UI option in the system settings? I’m looking for the equiv to ’Registration E-mail From Address’, but for add-ons, or anywhere in the code where I can add a from address to emails sent by the system.

Thanks in advance.


I do apologise if this needs to be in an add-ons forum somewhere after all. Feel free to move it.

Try downloading and running the QuickEmail extra. It may give you information on what’s wrong.

Thanks. I didn’t run it, but looking at the code helped. It turns out you set email options like this: set(modMail::MAIL_SENDER,’[email protected]’);

This was an add-on problem and needs moving. Sorry!

Here, anyway, an option was set to this: mail->set(modMail::MAIL_SENDER,’Quip’); and it needed to be this:
mail->set(modMail::MAIL_SENDER,$emailFrom);
($emailFrom was set to this: xpdo->getOption(’quip.emailsFrom’,null,$this->xpdo->getOption(’emailsender’));). It looks like there was a UI setting after all, it just wasn’t used for the from address.

I edited a file named quipthread.class.php, and I’m fixed. You could probably label this a server configuration problem. The sendmail ’from’ domain was getting set to my server’s hostname (cat /etc/hostname), which will be a valid domain name in a lot of cases, but isn’t in mine.

Anyway, hopefully this will be useful to someone. It worked for me.

Add-on PHP files were owned by my Apache daemon’s user, so I had to chown before I could edit.