I'm new with Joomla and I'm currently trying to set up a contact form. I searched on several forums but I didn't find an answer to my problem. First thing I want to know is if it's possible to send an email with a local web server. Secondly, is it possible to send the mails to a gmail adress and, if yes, what parameters - and where- do I have to change.
Joomla Version: 3.2.2
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Hi i am grapich designer but temporary asked working to check this emails problem.
we are using drupal for our website. When we are using google apps as our email server, the contact form on our webpage (which our customer used to use for sending us question) was stop sending emails seems the mail fuction is not working anymore. Is that because we hosted our emails to google apps? Is there anyway that to make work? We need the contact form on our webpage send mail
If you are using Webform you can set your email address a few places:
This is where the default Webform email is set:
yoursite.com/admin/config/content/webform
and that default can be overridden in the individual Webform E-mail tab:
yoursite.com/node/1234/webform/emails (1234 is node id of your webform)
Drupal also has a global email address for your site that could be used as the default also, so its worth checking here: yoursite.com/admin/config/system/site-information
Currently, I am developing a website using Drupal 7 in my local computer.
I have set up Contact Form (Drupal core module) for user to send feedbacks.
However, I have no idea how to send email from Contact form. I didn't receive any email after I filled in and submitted the contact form. And website displays the status "The message has been sent." But there is no email received.
I know there must be something I need to setup before using Contact Form. Maybe mail server?
I use Drupal 7 with XAMPP.
Is there any step-by-step guideline on sending email? Maybe for both cases
Local machine as web server (for testing on my local computer)
Real web server (for publishing after everything is done)
I have searched some solutions in some forums but I do not understand.
I am new to Drupal.
Thank you so much for your help and guidance.
For getting mail from contact form,
Enable the module
Go to admin-> structure-> contact form
Create new category
Fill the details Category, Recipients (you need to give the mail you need to get notified), etc...
If you need to test the mail in local then you need to setup SMTP module in your drupal, this will work in server also.
If you don't have any any SMTP settings then you need to test in server. In server you may don't need any smtp mail, simply php mail may work if your hosting server is support. So no need to do any extra effort for that.
I'm trying to confugure a contact form module to send the forms to custom e-mails other than the administrator's, wich is from the same domain as Joomla installation.
When I configure the module to send to administrator's e-mail, it works fine. However when I input other e-mail adresses from different domains to be the recipient, the e-mail isn't sent.
I already tested with Breezing Forms and B2J Contact, and this problem happened with both of them so I suppose it's a Joomla configuration problem. Using B2J Contact allows me to add two e-mail recipients, so I tested using the administrator's as main and the other from a different domain as copy, and I receive the e-mail only on the main recipient.
I'm using PHP Mail as the send method and my Joomla version is 3.3.0.
I've been researching for days and can't seem to find a solution.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I solved this problem by changing the send mail method to SMTP and placing the right port number, which I got from my host provider.
I've been using Contact Form 7 in Wordpress without too many problems. In a current installation, I can send mail to webmaster#domain.com but get an error when trying to send mail to user1#domain.com. I've checked this Stack Overflow ticket:
Wordpress - Contact Form 7 Not Sending to Certain Email
But enabling the SMTP mail plugin doesn't modify the behavior of the bug, and the mail server is not external (like the ticket in question). Any idea what the issue might be? Thanks!
EDIT: user#domain.com is a valid email address and also succeeds when running it against open source online email checkers.
Kind of a hack, but I had this happen to me when I tried to have the emails sent outside of the domain to a gmail account. I ended up adding CC: youremail#gmail.com to the Additional Headers and it worked well afterwards.
How do I use Google Apps' email services to send mail using the CodeIgniter email class? The email class seems to prefer SMTP, and I was going through the clients Google Apps account. I can't find any place within the Google Apps settings for SMTP. Does anyone know of a solution for this issue?
Right you don't find it because CodeIgniter uses the "mail" PHP function.
For some reasons only the most drunken PHP core developer knows about - this function do not support SMTP and worse even the admin can't configure SMTP usuage on Unix (it is possible to do this on windows - making the PHP design look even more crazy).
There are a few SMTP libraries out there that can handle SMTP Email, just use them
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/
http://swiftmailer.org/
or the Email classes from the Zend Framework which are uncoupled from the rest so easy to use with CodeIgniter.
Here is a blog post detailing instructions:
http://joelg.info/sending-email-with-gmail-using-the-codeignite
Extract From link:
Why send email with Gmail rather than
the server's SMTP configuration? There
are a number of advantages I see for
doing this: Ability to develop locally
and test email sending functionality
without going to lengths to setup a
local mail server. Ability to utilise
Google Apps emails to send email from
emails which are on your own domain.
Ability to have a reference of the
mail you send using this method in the
"sent" folder on your Gmail account.