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Problems sending mail using SMTP - El Forum - 12-06-2007

[eluser]salbertson[/eluser]
I am trying to send mail using SMTP but keep getting a sendmail error in my error log. I am trying to send mail using an outside mail server.

Here is my email config:

Code:

$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';

$config['smtp_host'] = 'mailserver.domain.com';

$config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';

$config['smtp_pass'] = 'password';

$config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';

$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;

$config['mailtype'] = "html";

Here is my email send code, the send function returns false:

Code:

// load email library

$this->load->library('email');



// construct email

$this->email->from('[email protected]', 'Support');

$this->email->to($_POST['email']);

$this->email->bcc('[email protected]');

$this->email->subject('Support');

$this->email->message("Anything");



if(!$this->email->send())

{

// error while sending email

show_error("An error occurred while sending your login email.");

exit;

}

Here is the error I get in Apache log:

Code:
sh: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Problems sending mail using SMTP - El Forum - 12-06-2007

[eluser]salbertson[/eluser]
I found the problem. I was setting the email config array in a separate file config/email.php and this worked on my windows test box but obviously not my linux box due to case sensitivity. It needs to be named Email.php. I guess if no config settings are present the email class tries to use sendmail. Makes sense now and I hope this helps someone else.

Problems sending mail using SMTP - El Forum - 01-05-2008

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
I saw the same problem, but fixed it in a different way. I changed _ci_init_class() in Loader.php to the following:

// Is there an associated config file for this class?
if ($config === NULL)
{
$config = NULL;
if (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/'.$class.EXT))
{
include(APPPATH.'config/'.$class.EXT);
}
elseif (file_exists(APPPATH.'config/'.strtolower($class).EXT))
{
include(APPPATH.'config/'.strtolower($class).EXT);
}

That way it checks for both the mixed and lowercase versions of the config name. I think a lot of other things are checked for this way as well. Not sure why they missed this one...