Hi all
I have been working on a solution using CF4 and part of this is sending some data via email. Now, this appears to be causing me an issue as the system isnt using the SMTP settings I inputted globally in Joomla and is using sendmail / phpmail instead.
This is driving me mad as I cant see how to configure CF4 to send the mail via SMTP and at the moment the mails are being marked as spam due this.
Can anyone help me out and advise how I can get the emails sent via SMTP?
Kind regards
Hi bon-ja-mon,
ChronoForms v4 uses the Joomla! mailer so should just send that way. Which version of Joomla! are you using?
It's possible that my Email [GH] action might help, as might updating the latest release of CFv4 for your Joomla! version.
Bob
Hi Bob
Apologies for my title, I meant Joomla 3.3.6 ! Anyway, thank you for the reply and here is my set up....
Joomla 3.3.6
Chronoforms - site - module - v4.0.3
Chronoforms - administrator - component - 4.0.6
Joomla global config, server settings are set to SMTP
If I send a message from a Chronoform form it goes in to my Junk folder in Outlook (2007) and has the red banner message saying:
"This might be a phishing message and is potentially unsafe. Links and other functionality have been disabled. Click here to enable functionality (not recommended)."
The header of the email has this line "X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.6 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)" which is why I thought it was not sending via SMTP. I have tried the normal email action as well as your version and the same happens.
I hope you have some thoughts as to how to get the mails to come through as normal mails. If you need me to send over more header information or anything about my set up etc just let me know.
Kind regards
Hi bon-ja-mon,
It looks as though it is ll working OK except that your email looks like spam to Outlook :-(
PHPMailer is not the same thing as PHPMail . . . the PHPMailer class is used to send through whichever method you specify.
Bob
Thanks for this Bob. It looks like it is only when I send the mails in HTML format that I get this phishing message. If I send them in plain text they come through fine. Weird. I am not sure what I can do regarding this really as the plain emails are somewhat bland.
Kind regards
Hi bon-ja-mon,
I can only suggest that you use one of the Email spam checkers on the web to see if you get a clue why they are being marked as spam. If you Google 'spam email checker online' you will find several.
Bob
Thanks Bob, will do. Have a great day.