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Thanks, elemental.  OK- can you try one more hacky thing for me.  Flip the conditional back to the way it was originally.  Then- we want to put a space after the -f a la:

if ( ! mail($this->recipients, $this->subject, $this->finalbody, $this->header_str, "-f ".$this->clean_email($this->headers['From'])))

See- only change was “-f”. changed to “-f “.

Then giver her a try and let me know if you can send from ‘Communicate’.

Make sense?

Hi Robin, thanks for getting back.

Unfortunately it does NOT work. Gives the same error msg as before:

Debugging Message
Unable to send email using PHP mail(). Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.

OK- think this needs to be tweaked on the host side of things.  Ask your host if the sendmail_path in your environment could be changed to just ‘/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i’.  Let them know your PHP application needs to be allowed to set its own envelope sender.

Hopefully, they will take care of it.  If not, could poke them for an htaccess/ini_set() override.  But first option is the best option.  And no hacking on our end.

Make sense?

Thanks for the suggestion, I will ask them and let you know how it went.
Thanks Robin

Sounds good.  Hopefully the host will come through w/the change.

Hm.  OK- want to just test something and see if it matters?  In system/core/core.email.php around line 1190 you’ll spot where EE actually sends via mail:

Let’s just flip that safemode conditional and try it once.  See what happens.  So

($this->safe_mode == TRUE)
change to
($this->safe_mode != TRUE)

We’ll force it to use the first option, which is similar to the pure php test.

Hi all,

I’m having the exact problem.
I could send email using php script written inside ee template.
But, not from ee system.
I tried Rohin’s hack, but did not work for me.

Everything was ok, before upgrading to 1.6.5 Build: 20081024.
So, I would like to know how can I debug the following line…

mail($this->recipients, $this->subject, $this->finalbody, $this->header_str)

Hey elemental - any updates on this? Been a bit, want to see if you need any more help. =)

I’ve found the solution for this.
It’s because of PHP error under Windows server.

Here’s the solution for this problem.

Good luck all!

Thanks for letting us know. @elemental, what’s your status? Do you still require assistance?

Thanks Ingmar for checking in. Seems I was not subscribed to this thread, or I have unsubscribed by error, anyway here is the update status.

After asking the hosting provider to change the appropriate settings in PHP.ini they finally came with the SMTP offer. After a few hiccups we are set and all outgoing mail is being sent OK. So unfortunately I cannot tell if that last suggestion would work we are set OK.

Thank you very much for your help Robin and Ingmar.

Well, the important things is it’s working, of course 😊 Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.