PEAR settings does nothing

[ThomasW]

We are having problems getting formmail.php to work using pear. It works fine without it but we would prefer to specify an smtp host.

I am using ?testalert=1 to test sending

I have set $from_user with a valid email address

I have set define("DEF_ALERT" with a valid email address

$TARGET_EMAIL = array( allows for all the above email addresses

under PEAR settings we have something along the lines of

$PEAR_SMTP_HOST = "mail.host.com";
$PEAR_SMTP_PORT = 25;
$PEAR_SMTP_USER = "xxx";
$PEAR_SMTP_PWD = "password";

on submitting we get a blank page and no errors.

I noticed a bug fix on 8.13 for PEAR error handling but upgrading to this has not changed this little problem for us.

running phpinfo() on our server seems to indicate pear is installed

include_path .:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php5/PEAR

Appreciate any thoughts should something be obviously wrong, thanks alot.

Thomas

[crabtree]

blank pages generally mean php has refused to execute the script and php is config'd to show the errors only in a server log file

u can look for a file on ur website called "php_errors"....it might contain the info u need

otherwise, try setting "display_errors" and "display_startup_errors" in php.ini (u can also do this in .htaccess)

u need to know wot the error is so u can fix it.

[ThomasW]

Thanks for that, we found out what the problem was using your help. Apparently access permissions were not set correctly on the PEAR directory.

Now that we are succesfully sending via PEAR, we are having problems sending to a BCC address.

Ive found a couple of others with the problem on the forum but it seems to be unresolved.

Ive tried to throw together a solution (using limited php knowledge and even less knowledge of how your code works) to hard code in my desired bcc address into the $to variable like so

 

line 4277 of formmail.php

function SendCheckedMail

        $bcc = "mybccaddress@domain.com";
    	$to = $to.", ".$bcc;    
        return (DoMail($to,$subject,$mesg,$a_headers));

mail is sent to the $bcc address but it is shown in the recipients list i.e. it is not really a blind copy.

Does this mean it has somehow got into $a_headers?