i'm use a XOOPS 2.10 stable.
my website is not send mail for 3 - 4 days and show this error



i'm not change anything and i'm searching xoops.org forums this subject... not solution...

any ideas ?

Contact your support webserver.
In very case is problem of server

Sorry my bad english.

i'm contact my webhoster but he say a not problem and nothing changed 1-2 week
and i try this code

for send mail and test
this work.

i think this problem a xoops' problem...

of i'm eating XOOPS 2.10 stable but i cant see phpmail problem...

i need a help but i dunno where is problem.

Does your XOOPS email work now?

I too am having the "Could not instantiate mail()" problem.

I'm using XOOPS version 2.0.13

Your test code (from 2005/5/31) works for me too, so something must be wrong with Xoops.

I cannot get SMTP or SMTPAuth to work either.

sendmail says it sends the message but I do not receive it.

I'm going to try to debug the code but I've been through this before with no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

SuperGeek

i'm changed my XOOPS version to XOOPS 2.0.13 but this mass mail function not work...

My debugging efforts have resulted in a work-around for the "Could not instantiate mail()" error raised by \class\mail\phpmailer\class.phpmailer.php

This appears to be a problem with the value of the $header variable in the class. My work-around is to simply set the value of $header to "". I believe a better solution to the problem is required but it is beyond my current expertise.

Here is my workaround:

/**
     * Sends mail using the PHP mail() function.  Returns bool.
     * @access private
     * @return bool
     */
    function mail_send($header, $body) {
        //$to = substr($this->addr_append("To", $this->to), 4, -2);

        // Cannot add Bcc's to the $to
        $to = $this->to[0][0]; // no extra comma
        for($i = 1; $i < count($this->to); $i++)
            $to .= sprintf(",%s", $this->to[$i][0]);

        if ($this->Sender != "" && PHP_VERSION >= "4.0")
        {
            $old_from = ini_get("sendmail_from");
            ini_set("sendmail_from", $this->Sender);
        }
$header="";  ////// This is my work-around
        if ($this->Sender != "" && PHP_VERSION >= "4.0.5")
        {
            // The fifth parameter to mail is only available in PHP >= 4.0.5
            $params = sprintf("-oi -f %s", $this->Sender);
            $rt = mail($to, $this->encode_header($this->Subject), $body, $header, $params);
        }
        else
        {
            $rt = mail($to, $this->encode_header($this->Subject), $body, $header);
        }

        if (isset($old_from))
            ini_set("sendmail_from", $old_from);

        if(!$rt)
        {
            $this->error_handler("Could not instantiate mail()");
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

I've submitted this as a bug in the XOOPS Bug Tracker at SourceForge. See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1235649&group_id=41586&atid=430840 for details.

I hope others find this helpful!

-SuperGeek

when i enter general settings / mail options
opened a blank page, if phpdebug on XOOPS show time out error

and when i enter system/send mail users,
if selected group 1 or 10 user XOOPS send mail.
but selected group is over 10 - 20 over user
xoops show same time out error...


this big big problem for me

i have a 12k users on my webpage :(
and i can't send mass mail to users...

See this 3RD Party Forum Thread it seems that it is a problem with the phpmailer function not being able to locate the SMTP server. It seems that the settings for this are in PHP.ini somewhere. So if your site is hosted they should check your configuration.

I'm not sure the part about not being able to find the SMTP server is correct, but the part about php.ini is. In php.ini the timeout setting by default is only 30 seconds. That is not nearly enough time to send email to my 600 users, much less 12,000.

The problem is that the script that does the looping to send email to all the selected users does so in a single execution of the script. If it's not done in 30 seconds (or whatever your php.ini says) it fails. Even worse, you won't know who actually got the email and who didn't.

Another problem: If you use shared/virtual hosting for your website (most do) you'll have a hard time convincing the system admin to change the default timeout period to much more than 30 seconds. The reason is because the php.ini applies to ALL the hosted accounts, not just yours. A few runaway scrips would cripple their server.

The only solution is to rewrite Xoops' email script, so that it sends a few emails and then calls itself, looping until all emails have been sent. Each time it calls itself it sends a few more emails, with a new 30 second timeout period within which to do so. Somehow it would have to keep track of who has already received the email and who has not.

Unless there is an existing solution I'm going to have to do this for my own websites. Has anyone else discovered a solution to this timeout issue?

-SuperGeek

i think paste this code for time out errors but which file ?

and this a error message.
Warning: Unknown(): A session is active. You cannot change the session module's ini settings at this time. in Unknown on line 0