New Hosting Environment - Need SMTP Help

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deniro0311 Reply #1, 17 years, 2 months ago

I need someone to nudge me in the correct direction to get the email functions of WebLoginPE working with SMTP. My client’s hosting company recently changed things up a little, and now I am scrambling to get the server to play nicely with MODx. I was able to get the eForms working by simply doing what was suggested to me on the following thread: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,37727.0.html. The solution was very simple, so I would assume the solution here shouldn’t be too nasty. I have tired modding the class.phpmailer.php script, but nothing I tried worked.

Thanks in advance

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sottwell Reply #2, 17 years, 2 months ago

It should be the same; at least providing that WebLoginPE uses the phpmailer class. If it doesn’t then find where it does its mailing and edit it to match the mailing part of eForm.

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BobRay Reply #3, 17 years, 2 months ago

Right, you shouldn’t have to touch the phpmailer file. Basically, all you need is this (with the correct parameters, of course):

        $mail = new PHPMailer();

        $mail->IsSMTP();
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true; //Turn on SMTP authentication
        $mail->Host = $spfSMTP_Host;
        $mail->Port = $spfSMTP_Port;
        $mail->Username = $spfSMTP_UserName; //SMTP username
        $mail->Password = $spfSMTP_Password; //SMTP password

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deniro0311 Reply #4, 17 years, 2 months ago

I guess I will have to find something harder to throw at you guys, because you all made this too easy. I really do appreciate it. For those of you out there with a similar problem (who are dummies like me), here is what I did. Now I am not saying this is 100% correct, but everything is working at this time.

In the file, /assets/snippets/webloginpe/webloginpe.class.php , look for "new PHPMailer();". I believe it is in there 5 times. In fact, here are the 5 ways it appears. I figured I should modify all of them, but I could be wrong. Now if you are having this issue, then you definitely are having the same issue with eForm. Follow the link I posted above, because the solution is slightly different.

$Reset = new PHPMailer();
$Register = new PHPMailer();
$Notify = new PHPMailer();
$Pruned = new PHPMailer();
$EmailMessage = new PHPMailer();

All I did was add two lines bellow every instance of "new PHPMailer();", like below. If you require authentication, this is also where you would add that info (I think).

$Reset = new PHPMailer();
$Reset->IsSMTP();
$Reset->Host = 'smtp.domain.com';

Thanks for all the help everyone.