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A new version of eForm with built in SMTP. **BETA FOR TESTING**

  • yama Reply #11, 12 years, 10 months ago
    This seems to be interesting. If possible, I want also to cooperate.

    I am working on the renewal of PHPMailer now.
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      bunk58 Reply #12, 12 years, 10 months ago
      @yama
      Help would be good smiley
      • yama Reply #13, 12 years, 10 months ago
        Thanks, David.

        https://github.com/yama/eform
        I made the repository on the github. I use here.

        https://github.com/yama/eform/commits/master/
        History

        https://github.com/yama/evolution/commit/3f3f21e943386a0855f52a6b16c214ab1a55b117
        https://github.com/yama/evolution/commit/c194a9c689cdbc1bb9b9ac42a6655a04efaf4ca7
        http://bugs.modx.com/issues/1014
        Related PHPMailer project is here. (Update PHPMailer 1.7.3 -> 2.0.4 and multi language use)
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          crazedbmw Reply #14, 12 years, 10 months ago
          I’m getting the following error upon form submission:

          SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Main mail: Mailer was unable to send mailSMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.


          I’m currently using gmail to relay my forms. I noticed there was no place in the configuration file to specify the connection prefix (like in class.phpmailer.php). Specifying ssl is required for authenticating through gmail.

          from class.phpmailer.php
          $SMTPSecure    = 'ssl';


          I currently have my form working through a simple phpmailer code to verify the host and credentials, however I cannot get it to send with eform sad

          Help?

          I added the following lines:

          eform.inc.php
          					$mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP 
					$mail->Host = $smtp_host; // SMTP servers 
					$mail->Port = $smtp_port; // SMTP port 
					$mail->SMTPAuth = $smtp_auth; // turn on SMTP authentication 
					$mail->SMTPSecure = $smtp_secure;
					$mail->Username = $smtp_user; // SMTP username 
					$mail->Password = $smtp_pass; // SMTP password


          eform snippet
             /* new SMTP parameters */ 
   'smtp' => isset($smtp)? $smtp:false,
   'smtp_host' => isset($smtp_host)? $smtp_host:'smtp.googlemail.com',
   'smtp_port' => isset($smtp_port)? $smtp_port:465,
   'smtp_auth' => isset($smtp_auth)? $smtp_auth:'true',
   'smtp_secure' => isset($smtp_secure)? $smtp_secure:'ssl',
   'smtp_user' => isset($smtp_user)? $smtp_user:'[email protected]',
   'smtp_pass' => isset($smtp_pass)? $smtp_pass:'mypassword',


          I also added &smtp_secure=`ssl` to my [eform] call.


          Thanks in advance
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            bunk58 Reply #15, 12 years, 10 months ago
            Looking through the existing class.phpmailer.php & class.smtp.php code there is no variable $SMTPSecure
            Yama has updated to a new version on github and $SMTPSecure is in the class.phpmailer,php file, though I can’t see it in the class.smtp.php file.
            Have you tried setting the host as ssl://smtp.gmail.com, probably won’t work but worth a try.
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              crazedbmw Reply #16, 12 years, 10 months ago
              What version of phpmailer are you using? I’ve updated to 5.1

              I tried setting ssl://mail.googlemail.com as the host, no luck sad

              I just find it really strange I can connect and send smtp mail using a basic phpmailer script but it’s not working through eform sad

              Have you tried using gmail as an SMTP relay through eForm?
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                bunk58 Reply #17, 12 years, 10 months ago
                I’ve only used the standard php mailer files that ship with MODX, not sure which version they are.
                I’ll try and test using my Google Mail account.
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                  bunk58 Reply #18, 12 years, 10 months ago
                  By modifying around line 537 of /manager/includes/controls/class.phpmailer.php
                  Change :
                              if(strstr($hosts[$index], ":"))
                list($host, $port) = explode(":", $hosts[$index]);

                  To :
                              if(strstr($hosts[$index], "::"))
                list($host, $port) = explode("::", $hosts[$index]);

                  I then successfully sent with :
                  $smtp_auth = 'true';
$smtp_user = '[email protected]';
$smtp_pass = 'mypassword';
$smtp_host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com';
$smtp = 'true';
$smtp_port = 465;;

                  Let me know if it works for you.
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                    crazedbmw Reply #19, 12 years, 10 months ago
                    Ahhh yesss!! Thank you Bunk! What an interesting operator... "::"

                    FYI- You’re using the old version of phpmailer. I reverted back so I could use your solution though smiley

                    My reports are coming through unformated. Now I’m searching on how to enable the html reporting.

                    Thanks again!
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                      crazedbmw Reply #20, 12 years, 10 months ago
                      For some reason my html reporting is not formatting after I configured the SMTP relay.