Error 500 on submit mail form

Hi!

Thank you for great extension and please help to configure.
Simple e-mail form:
1. header
2. e-mail field
3. capcha
4. submit

Submitted e-mail includes into letter and sends to specified adress.

And now I don't know what (and please help)
On submit i have this -

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
malformed header from script. Bad header=More than one "from" person: index.php

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 500

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Hi tempus,

Which version of Joomla! and ChronoForms are you using?
You can find the ChronoForms version from Site Admin | Extensions | Install/Uninstall | Components in Joomla! 1.5 or Site Admin | Extensions | Extension Manager | Manage in Joomla! 1.6/1.7/2.5.

Bob

Joomla! 2.5.10
ChronoForms:
component - 4.0 25.April.2013
module and plugin - V4 RC3.0 26 Dec 2011

Hi tempus,

That should be OK. Please temporarily set site Error Reporting to Maximum in the site Global Configuration and see if you get a more helpful error message.

Bob

I discovered that problem caused by inserted e-mail in configs of hosting...
And nobody will delete it (support says).

I tryed to use sendmail, but with the same result.

Hi tempus,

So what does your web host suggest are the correct settings to use in Joomla!?

Bob

I don't know what they are thinking about. They prevent spam.
This is the site of department in university and IT-department hosts it.

Admin advised me to use fields like Reply-To but I don't use to do it - all the scripts works good on other hosting.
I understand that this the problem of hosting, not a chronoforms.

Hi tempus,

I agree that Reply To is the right field to use if you want to have variable addresses.

Bob

"from" is constant admin box.🙂
E-mail requests from this adress adds subscribers to list.
All forwarded e-mails from admin box to list box make mailing thru saved list of subscribers.

so I cant use variable "from", am I right?

Done!!!

I discovered that I made mistakes during the upgrade of joomla.

Now it works good.

Hi tempus,

Using a variable From Email often causes problems as emails can get marked as spam because the sending domain doesn't match the domain of the email.

Bob

Ok, i think i have a similar problem. I too have a form with an Email field, and when i try to process it, i receive an error. I tried escaping the @ character using

$look_for = "@";
		$change_to = "\@";
		$changed_text = str_replace($look_for, $change_to, $formArray->data['email']);
		
		$this->email    = $changed_text;

(i'm using it inside a class, so the $this pointer is ok).

I'm using the JDBO to build the insert clause like this:

$columns = array('name_sponsor', 'phone_sponsor', 'email_sponsor', 'address_sponsor', 'pCode_sponsor', 'id_province', 'id_city');

   		$values = array($this->sp_name, $this->phone, $this->email, $this->address, $this->postalC, $this->province, $this->city);

However when i submit it i receive the following

500
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\@gmail.com,6615 ch.,H1l2h5,5,462)' at line 3 

I tried changing the Error reporting to Maximum to no effect. I also tried both with and without the escaped '@' character. Thanks

Hi Oniera,

I'm not terribly impressed by the Joomla! 3 JDBO class; it seems to me that there is quite a lot that it does poorly or not at all :-(

The problem here may be that the values aren't being quoted. Please try:

$db =& JFactory::DBO();
$this->email =& $db->quote($this->email);

Bob

Thanks, got it running. Very weird indeed, but very simple.