Contact form not sending emails

I have put an email address in tools/configuration/user/ email address but it says there that this is for:
"Here you can specify the e-mail address used when sending users their usernames and passwords"

but anyway i have put my email in there and still the contact form doesn’t work....

Did you test you can send mails from that server?

are you testing on a local server or an remote server? Sometimes on local server the firewall will not let the email work.

Also, as nightsignals suggested, make sure you have mail() available on your server.

no it’s just hosted with a company, not my own server. how do i check they have ()mail option available?

You can create a php document with this code (using your own e-mail address, of course):



Save it as mail.php or something, send it to your server, and access it from the browser.

If your mail() function does not work, you might try this modification I made to eForm that uses Swiftmailer.

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,19370.msg120440.html#msg120440

This version is for PHP 4.x installs.

ok i emailed tech support and asked them and they gave me this link which gives php details for my domain, could anyone take a look for me and advise thanks: http://www.insideyork.co.uk/sln-php-info.php

That looks fine so far. Did you use my script? If that didn’t send mail, ask your tech support to look into it.

hi i haven’t tried the script so far, i just wanted to check with you if the normal contact form should be working or not from that php out that my host has given the link to. i’m a bit worried things aren’t as they should be, do you think i should be complaining to my host, and if so what should i say as they don’t support 3rd party cms scripts and stuff.

or do i just give up and use your script?

My script is not meant to be used instead of eForm, it’s meant to narrow down the problem. We still don’t know if the mail() function works or not. That’s what you need to figure out first, before contacting tech support of your host.