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I have a small mail problem

I get this error when using mail in config.php



Then I trayed to use the SMTP option in sted, and if I use true in the 'auth' line. I don't get a mail. but I get an error in the error.log file



When I use false in the 'auth' line I get this error on the screen in 2 sek. but I get an mail, and ther is no error in the error.log file

Plz help me I have spend a long time on this error.

Is there somebody there have any ideas ?

I get the same error when someone registers:

[pear_error: message="unable to set sender to [@]" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

mail setup is set to smtp when these errors occur, but setting it to mail it works fine. Strange SMTP was working with the last version of 1.3.8. The only reason I caught on was the fact that newly registered users never logged in.

I have found the error

line nr. 138 in the config file

$_CONF['path_pear'] = $_CONF['path_system'] . 'PEAR/';

$_CONF['path_pear'] = $_CONF['path_system'] . 'pear/';

In my config, I just have:

$_CONF['path_pear'] = $_CONF['path_system'] . 'pear/';

Are you suggesting that I add $_CONF['path_pear'] = $_CONF['path_system'] . 'PEAR/'; to the config or replace $_CONF['path_pear'] = $_CONF['path_system'] . 'pear/'; with $_CONF['path_system'] . 'PEAR/';

FWIW, Geeklog ships with a lower-case "pear" directory (i.e. system/pear) and therefore, the case in the config.php matches that (i.e. it's also lower-case). This should work as expected "out of the box".

Maybe Sniper12 renamed his directory or some software he used did it. I don't think this is the solution to the problem described earlier in this thread.

Instead, I'd try switching $_CONF['have_pear'] to true:

$_CONF['have_pear'] = true;

(assuming your webserver is running at least PHP 4.3.0)

bye, Dirk

My host does provide pear. But when I set it to true, I still get:

[pear_error: message="unable to set sender to [@]" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

Any other ideas? Is there anything to having the Site Name as Knightrider.org and the mail domain as mail.knightrider.org as another poster suggested???

I did not rename the directory, maybe some software did it. But it worked after I changed it from PEAR to pear

Problem:
[pear_error: message="unable to set sender to [@]" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

on 1.3.9sr1. Using smtp, pear = false.

Found a solution that worked for me:
- in config.php :
$_CONF['site_name'] = 'penaddict.de'; CHANGED TO
$_CONF['site_name'] = 'penaddict';

Seems like the mailer does not like any URL-like name as the site_name-variable.

Found the hint here:
http://dloepfe.com/main/article.php?story=20040326125905436

Hope that helps someone.

Had the same problem: pear_error: message="unable to set sender to [@]"

It happened when I had used polish national characters before "From" email address:



So, it's necessary to encode it for example like this:



It will do the trick.

Which Geeklog version was that? 1.4.1 should (finally) encode all special characters correctly.

bye, Dirk