Need to add a '-f' parameter for mail...

Hi Im going mad with frsutratin over this.

My client is using fasthosts (seem to be notoriously difficult to configure to use email) - and Im using Modx Revo. Basically I have tried using both FormIt and SPForm to send email - I have got further with Spform but I cant send email through a contact form with either of them.

I suspect its because to send email through a webserver with fasthosts, you need to add ’-f’ parameter. i also think I need to use smtp to send the mail.

So, for every instance of:





My question is, where do I start? are there likely to be files in Spform I need to adjust to add this parameter?

And what about class.phpmailer.php - found in \core\model\modx\mail\phpmailer

Do these snippets over-ride these settings? and does the modx manager (system settings) over-ride these settings? If i wanted to force smtp, what would I need to change.

But most importantly, how can i add this ’-f’ parameter to the send mail variables?

Any help, please! would be gratefully received, and will get my client to donate to the modx project!

Many thanks.

Dan

If you use SMTP, you shouldn’t need the -f. Just set the SMTP system settings and you should be good to go. Don’t use the FormIt or SPform SMTP parameters, that will just confuse the mailer -- use only the MODx System Settings.

Many thanks for the reply Bob - for anyone who is struggling to get SMTP mailing working because of a server authentication or whatever - here is how I go the snippit formIt to work - I imagine this would be just as straightforward with spForm, too.

The key for me was actually simple - make sure you include an &emailFrom parameter (in formit) and an email address (an email that is related to your server) in your snippet call - this way the receiving mail server will authenticate the sent message against the ’&emailFrom’ email address. As I said, pretty straight forward. I also included the &smtpEnabled parameter, but not sure how important that is....


Here is the snippet call I used to get formIt to process the mail - Im sure SPform works just as well with the correct snippet calls - it just so happens that formit worked for me first after trying to get both to work!) as long as you include a ’&emailFrom’(formit) address in the snippet call too. its probably wise to send a subject line across, as spam filtering might stop you receing your mail:

[[!FormIt? &hooks=`spam,email,redirect`&emailTpl=`MyEmailChunk`&emailTo=`[email protected]` &emailFrom=`from.youemailaddress.com` &redirectTo=`15`&smtpEnabled=`1`&emailUseFieldForSubject=`1` ]]

as Bob says, enable SMTP authentication in the ’mail’ section of the ’system settings’ and leave it to modx to handle the smtp, not the snippets.

Hope that helps...