Unable to Email with eForm - mail function error

I’ve been able to set up and send emails with standard PHP scripts on this server without any problems. However, trying to utilize eForm is giving me the dreaded

Main mail: Mailer was unable to send mailCould not instantiate mail function.


I’m not entirely certain how to conquer this particular problem - or where to start really.

As I said, if I simply place a php script on the server that uses the mail() function, it works like a champ. However, MODx is giving me this error message.

Any suggestions on where I can start working on this thing to sort this out?

This is on a Windows-based server, the php.ini mail function is set up to utilize SMTP - but like I said, the mail() works just fine outside of MODx.

Thanks for any help!

First of all - do you have a folder /assets/snippets/eform? Containing eform.inc.php?
That is where the snippet sends the data.

Yeppers, all of the snippet is present. It just doesn’t work.

I did find another thread on here and managed to change the settings to utilize SMTP mail - suboptimal for me, but it does work.

Strange thing is - running a test snippet on the site with a simple mail() function call works w/o a problem.

Oh well. Thank you for at least tossing a reply my way!

The error message: does it thell you the file and line which is producing this error?

eform uses default email in site config in &from param, be sure to check if ur host implies and restriction on FROM address. eg it must be one of domains hosted on the server.