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Greetings,

I have Chronoforms setup on a 1.0.15 install and I can't seem to get around this issue. I can send an email via the contact for and from the "email this article" links just fine but when I submit a cronoforms I don't get anything. When I enable bug testing it just says "email not sent".

Any ideas?

Thanks,
SP

Here's the Debug report:

_POST: Array ( [name] => Sean-Paul McKee [email] => myemail@yahoo.com [submit] => Submit )
Case 1: Use table layout
E-mail: 'Yes' custom
Email not sent

Hi SP,

That looks fine as far as it goes. What is in the rest of the DeBug report, there should be a 'copy' of the results email as well. Does this show up? If so what is in it please?

Bob

Bob,

Thanks for your reply. Here is the rest of the debug report:

E-mail message

From: []
To: myemail@yahoo.com,
Subject:
Name 	Sean-Paul
Email 	myemail@yahoo.com
submit 	Submit


Submitted by 67.50.255.146

Hi spmckee,

There's no From name or address in there so Joomla won't send the email. Please check that both the From & ReplyTo names and emails are complete in the General tab.

Bob

Bob,

Thanks again for your help. I seem to have those filled in, at least I think it is correct. Please see the image for reference.

Thanks,
Sean-Paul

Sorry, image was too big at first.

Hi spmckee,

It looks as though you may have the same address in the To & From fields - quite likely Yahoo will kill this as an incorrect message. Please try with a different address in Email to box.

Bob

Bob,

I changed the email address but I am still getting the "email not sent" message in the debugger. Here is the result:

_POST: Array ( [name] => sdfkdshkljh [email] => myemail@solidstatic.com [submit] => Submit )
Case 1: Use table layout
E-mail: 'Yes' custom
Email not sent
E-mail message

From: []
To: myemail@sean-paul.com,
Subject:
Name 	sdfkdshkljh
Email 	myemail@solidstatic.com
submit 	Submit


Submitted by 71.182.82.58

What's really odd is that, even though I have entered an address in the "from" field it shows it as blank in the debugger. Could this be a bug or some other issue?

Thanks again for your attention on this!

-SP

Well, I got it working.

The issue ended up being in the "Special Fields" tab. The first field reads:"Email field name must be a field name:" -BUT- if you rollover the tool tip it reads "...This field value must be a valid email address". So I was putting in an email address and it was breaking.

Thanks for all your help in getting me there Bob!
-SP

Hi spmckee,

Ah, yes it's the field **value** that has to be a valid address - the tooltip is really a hint to make sure it's validated.

Bob

I've build chron form in Joomla 1.5 but responder doesn't receive email. I've the faqs and installed debug. One of the results =

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in /home/urdv/domains/urdv.nl/public_html/voedingsonderzoek/components/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.php(565) : eval()'d code on line 37

Anyone an idea what to do.

cfbak has been attached.

Thanks in advance

Rocky

Hi rocky,

There's a glitch in your php here

<?php 
$recipient = $_POST[e_mail]; 
$html_message = "<p>Thank your for your entry in the UV</p>"; 
$subject = "Subject for the email"; 
// next line is broken
$from, $fromname, $recipient, $subject, $html_message ,true ;
?>

Bob

Thanks Bob and sorry, same error and still no email to responder.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in /home/urdv/domains/urdv.nl/public_html/voedingsonderzoek/components/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.php(565) : eval()'d code on line 42

fyi, 2nd line is line 42:

// next line is broken
$from, $fromname, $recipient, $subject, $html_message ,true ;
?>

Perhaps another suggestion?

Regards

Rocky

Hi Rocky,

That line is garbage PHP - and it's causing the error.

You need to correct the PHP so that it does whatever it's supposed to.

Bob

Thanks again, with some (php)help from others my form works perfect now.

Final request: If responders receive an autoreply, sender is the email adress off my joomla basic server/configuration.

In the general page of my form (from Email) I have used another email address.

What have I to change so that responder will receive email of the address that is listed in the general page.

Thanks for your help and don't forget to enjoy your weekend!

Rocky

Hi Rocky,

You can change the ReplyTo address for your form in the General Tab, this will over-ride the setting in your server configuration.

Please be careful with this, email addresses here that your ISP does not recognise may stop emails being sent.

Bob

Sorry, Bob. But no.
I already had changed/configured that but still the basic emailadress is the sender. And even if I set 'no' on 'Email the results ?', I get those emails.

So I think it should be in 'on submit code'?

rgrds

R

Hi rocky,

Sorry, I didn't reqd back far enough. You are sending your own emails with the PHP code you posted earlier so you need to set the ReplyTo address in the same place.

Bob

I am afraid that I not clear enough Bob. See attachment. Using this form generates to mails:
1. one to admin conform data in general page = Okay
2. second one sends mail to responder. I want to use here the email adress [email]voedingsonderzoek@urdv.nl[/email] as sender, but when the mail arrives in the mailbox of responder it is [email]urdv@urdv.nl[/email] (server basis mail) who has sent it.

I think still something missing in the script??

rgrds

Hi Rocky,

If you use the PHP mail() funtion then you need to add the 'headers' parameter to do this (see the PHP manual).

But it's easier to use the Joomla sendMail function

$email_sent = JUtility::sendMail( $from, $fromname, $recipient, $subject, $html_message, 
true, $ccemails, $bccemails, $attachments, 
$replyto_email, $replyto_name );

and set values for the 'from' and 'replyto' variables.

Bob

That's the one, Bob.
Great and thansk for your help again!

Rocky