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I have a basic form on my website. People can fill it out and submit it, no problem. Then it's supposed to send me an email with the form response, but the email never gets sent. The log informs me of the following error:

Mail Exception Occurred. Unable to send mail: Unable to send mail
#0 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/Zend/Mail/Transport/Abstract.php(348): Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail->_sendMail()
#1 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/Zend/Mail.php(973): Zend_Mail_Transport_Abstract->send(Object(Zend_Mail))
#2 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/helpers/mail.php(191): Zend_Mail->send(NULL)
#3 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/blocks/form/controller.php(335): MailHelper->sendMail()
#4 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/models/block.php(276): FormBlockController->action_submit_form()
#5 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/startup/process.php(214): Block->passThruBlock(Array, Array)
#6 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/concrete/dispatcher.php(226): require('/home/overeasy/...')
#7 /home/overeasy/public_html/happymediumpdx.com/massage/index.php(2): require('/home/overeasy/...')
#8 {main}

Of course, I have no idea what this means. I'm running 5.4.1, and the forms definitely worked just fine for the first few months that my website was running, and then stopped working for some inexplicable reason. Help!
 
guythomas replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
guythomas
Its very possible that your host changed something with the php install effectively breaking your sendmail function. You can bypass this by setting your website to use the smtp server instead. Goto your dashboard, the click into the site wide settings area. Now click the email tab, and switch it over to smtp. You should be able to find the correct settings by looking through your web hosts support documentation, our maybe the email setup area. You may even want to create an email account just for your website and use it.

Let me know if your need more clarification.
edenxavier replied on at Permalink Reply
edenxavier
I agree with guythomas. If you're certain you (or anyone else) hasn't changed anything related to the mail functions, it probably wouldn't hurt to contact your webhost about this issue.

A current client of mine too had this mysterious sendmail failure recently even though everything had been working fine even after the recent C5 upgrade. We shot an email to their webhost and discovered that their host had been retweaking a lot of the PHP security behind the scenes which somehow nixed PHP mail functions, not just for C5 but for other software like Prestashop. Luckily, everything was fixed shortly.
happymedium replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks! I've contacted my webhost to see if they can clear this up. I'll report back soon.
happymedium replied on at Permalink Reply
My webhost recommended changing to SMTP, which brought up some other problems, but now it's fixed! Thanks for your help!