Emails Not Using Joomla Mailer

Question

Chronoforms successfully sends emails - great!

The problem I'm experiencing is that it doesn't seem to use the Joomla configured mailer method and instead manually sends its mails through the PHP mail() function.

Is this expected behavior? How can I change this to use the Joomla configured mailer method? The need is that all site emails are sent through Mandrill and I cannot track Chronoforms-generated emails the way they are currently generated and sent.

GreyHead · Accepted Answer

Hi korireed,

Yes that's the code, the form data is in the $form->data array so you'd use, e.g.

$mailer->addRecipient($-form->data['recipient']);

to set the To Email, and so on.

The code from the Cfv4 email action or my Email [GH] action might help here if you are familiar with PHP. Though. looking at my code, a lot of that deals with other Joomla! versions and options that you may not need. Here's the core chunk of the Joomla! 3 code

        } elseif ( $jversion->RELEASE > 2 ) {
          $mail =& JFactory::getMailer();
          $mail->setSender(array( $from_email, $from_name ));
          $mail->addRecipient($recipients);
          $mail->setSubject($subject);
          $mail->setBody($email_body);
          $mail->isHTML((bool) $sendas == 'html' );
          $mail->Encoding = 'base64';
          $mail->addAttachment($email_attachments);
          $mail->addCC($cc_emails);
          $mail->addBCC($bcc_emails);
          $mail->addReplyTo(array($replyto_email, $replyto_name));
          $email_sent = $mail->Send();
        }

As you see the variables have all been processed before from the $form->data array and the action options before this

Bob

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