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

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    tat2d Reply #1, 16 years, 3 months ago
    I know this topic has been open a number of times, but all the results didn’t fix the issue for my site. I’m getting "Main mail: Mailer was unable to send mailCould not instantiate mail function."

    Here’s my call:
    [!eForm? &formid=`ContactForm` &subject=`[+subject+]` &to=`[email protected]` &ccsender=`1` &tpl=`ContactForm` &report=`ContactFormReport` &invalidClass=`invalidValue` &requiredClass=`requiredValue` &cssStyle=`ContactStyles` &gotoid=`46` !]


    I’ve tried it both with an email address and using the call. I’m using the generic Contact page from MODx, and just updated to 1.0.4.
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      sottwell Reply #2, 16 years, 3 months ago
      There are so many reasons why the mail() function may not work on any given server that without a lot more information it’s impossible to even try to guess why it’s failing here.
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        tat2d Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago
        Ok, what additional information is needed?
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          sottwell Reply #4, 16 years, 2 months ago
          Platform (Linux, Windows, ... )
          Web server (Apache, IIS, ... )
          Version of PHP
          Version of MODx

          Can you send mail from a plain .php file? Does your hosting provider have the mail() function blocked or limited to use within the server? Do you need to use SMTP?
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