Hello,
following problem:
Virtuemart Vendor-Contact Form does not send e-mails anymore, i believe since i updated to VM 2.0.24 some 2 or 4 weeks ago, but im not sure. The funny thing is: order confirmation-mails, account-creation mails and so on do work! So it should not be a Joomla or a hoster-problem.
Error message is: "Could not instantiate mail function."
Current Version:
VM 2.0.24c
Joomla! 2.5.16
Mailer: phpmail
I tried disabling my template but this doesn't work, too. On my development-xampp-host no PHP-Warnings / Errors / Notices are shown. it doesnt send Mails (mail-server not configured) but thows no errors. I checked server logs and found nothing. Perhaps someone here has an idea?
Bye, Mojo
Hey Mojo, I'm not sure this is a virtuemart issue?
Check out this http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=803325 and see if it helps you out.
If you are logged into the FE as superuser/vendor or use that email address as the from address then some servers (not all) will reject the mail as from and to addresses are identical.
thank you for your answers!
@jenkinhill: i wasn't logged in FE when testing. the vendor-contact-form didn't work for our clients too.
@sandstorm: i believe it can't be a joomla problem, because i had no general mailing problem - just in the vm-vendor-contact-form - even with std-template. btw safe mode is off.
yesterday in the night i tested on my local xampp (1on1 copy of life-page), and checked the variables down to the php- mail() function:
All parameters are filled like i would expect it. everything ok - on xampp @mail() does return true (which means everything is OK).
I absolutely do not understand whats the problem and can't debug on life server. this would be a perfect x-files episode.
So since today in the afternoon I use com_contact. It works flawless.
Bye, mojo