unable to send email from form

Hi

I am using:
Chronoforms V4 on Joomla 2.5.6

I have successfully created a form
And am trying to post the data to e-mail.
However I am getting the error...

"Could not initiate mail function"

I Have configured the email event with only statict data as per instructions
in the Chronoforms tutorial film :"E-mail 1" (does not help)

I Have put a debugger event which ironically says: "Result An email has been SENT successfully from (Postmaster) [email]postmaster@quericasalsa.nl[/email] to [email]info@quericasalsa.nl[/email]"

However at the very top i get the anoying yellow bar stating:
"Could not initiate mail function"

I WONDER WHAT'S GOING ON?

Thanks in advance

Hi obrowne,

Can your site send email? The message most often occurs when there is no mail server set up in the site Global Admin.

And, yes, I'm afraid that the 'successful' message is sometimes over optimistic :-(

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply. It set me on the right track.
The issue does seem to lay in a bug in the PHPmailer.php in the Joomla 2.5.6 update.
Reverting to an older version of the PHPmailer.php as a temporary workaroud till the next Joomla update is working out for me. I can now mail again!

However there i one thing i'm running into. Which i will duelly post in a new topic if i do not find any mention of it in the forum.

My problem is as follows:
1) when i fill out my form and send it...
2) and captcha verification fails....
3) The captcha error is mentioned...
4) and i am given the opportunity to resend the form with correct capcha...
5) All previously filled in fields are (re)populated accordingly, except for one!
6) The e-mail field returns a long code (in which i doe not recognize an e-mail adres)

<script type='text/javascript'> <!-- var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy20274 = 'obrowne' + '@'; addy20274 = addy20274 + 'planet' + '.' + 'nl'; document.write('<a ' + path + '\'' + prefix + ':' + addy20274 + '\'>'); document.write(addy20274); document.write('<\/a>'); //-->\n </script><script type='text/javascript'> <!-- document.write('<span style=\'display: none;\'>'); //--> </script>This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. <script type='text/javascript'> <!-- document.write('</'); document.write('span>'); //--> </script>

7) if you still go ahead and submit the form anyway....
8) The form will submit, but results in the following output for the e-mail:
9) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

My question is:
How can i avoid getting the long code instead of the e-mail?