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When the form email is sent the return-path in the header is not changed to the return address I configured in chronoform and a return path of "nobody@xxx.com" is added by the server. The "nobody" return path is bounced by some mail servers because of filtering I guess.

Any suggestions as to how I might fix this?

by the "return address you configured", which field do you mean ?

I have the "Reply to email:", "From Email:" filled in with good addresses.

Hi btimms,

This looks similar to another question posted recently. Can you post a copy of your General tab here?

The [email]nobody@xxx.com[/email] doesn't come from ChronoForms - it's most like the Joomla mailer writing in the site default because it hasn't received a valid email for that field (or fields).

I don't know what's happening in your case but the most common cause of this is putting an e-mail address where ChronoForms expects a field name or vice versa.

Bob

Here it is<br><br>Post edited by: btimms, at: 2007/08/03 01:25

Hi Btimms,

Please clear those 2 fields :

#1- From email field
#2- From name field

then please retest, if everything went ok then please edit your posts and remove your images for your data privacy.

Cheers

Max

Well I cleared the fields and still get the nobody return path<br><br>Post edited by: btimms, at: 2007/08/03 21:02

Hi,

Ok, now lets add "Admin@admin.com" at both the "reply to email" and the "from email" and put "Admin" at the "From name".

what do you see now in the email header ?

Same thing - "nobody@....."


Post edited by: btimms, at: 2007/08/03 02:50<br><br>Post edited by: btimms, at: 2007/08/03 21:04

Here it is

Hi Btimms,

I can't think of why this happens, what email do you have as the "from email" inside your joomla global config ?

I have my email address - [email]bob@mydomain.com[/email].

Admin note : edited email for protection<br><br>Post edited by: admin, at: 2007/08/03 18:26

After trying most everything I could think of I changed the using the various mailer options. The default was PHP mail function which is what I have been using. I changed it to sendmail with the same results. But when I changed to SMTP server it worked as I would expect! Hopefully this solves my problem.

Any comments to clarify this would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi Bob,

Check your php.ini file, there is a 'sendmail_from=' setting commented out at line 692 in mine; I wonder if this has a nobody@setting in it??

Bob

PS I searched the Joomla files and 'nobody' only occurs in install.php talking about MySQL passwords.

Well, since its working using SMTP its not at the top of the list anymore. However I would still like to get it fixed so it would run under sendmail or php mail. Reply's to post I've made elsewhere say this can be forced with a "-f" flag in the php.ini file or in the individual script itself. I would prefer to figure out how to do it on an individual script basis rather than enable it site wide.

I'm going to do some further research next week and will post any findings back here.

Cheers