Email Not working has anybody figured it out??

I know, there are a million threads on this... I have read about half of them and have not come up with a solution.

I need to use SMTP mail, I have experience setting these up and know for a fact I am putting the right info into the form fields.

I get absolutely no mail, the customer doesnt get mailed, the admin doesnt get mailed, and the contact form doesnt work.

I really want to use opencart, throught trying to get this mail fixed I have been checking out other CMS and I just havent foud anything else I like to use as much as opencart.

I have only discovered 2 issues,
the email
and the fact that I cant add the same item to my cart twice (I have 4 different options on an item so if a customer wanted to order 1 one way and 1 the other way I would like them to be able to)

Other than these I have found the system very user firendly and great to use. I need the email to be fixed to back able to use this, I would like the cart issue to be fixed but can work around it with more products.

Any help on either of these issues is appreciated.

Hi,

Dont know if I should have started a new thread, but got almost the same problem with the mails.
When I change the status of a order mails are sent and customers creation email, but no invoices to customers or admins are sent (ticked it of in settings). The same with new orders - no info to admins.
I find it strange since the emails with the status change is passed to customers.

// DKLeader

OK, I've got it half working. Its really messed up though.

I am using SMTP mail however I had to set the mail protocol to "mail" instead of "smtp"

Now, the contact form works, and the admin emails work, they are sent to one of my domain emails.

However, depending on the email of the customer sometimes their host rejects it. My roadrunner ISP rejects it, a customers AOL ISP (same as rr really) rejects it, maybe more???

If i place an order and have it sent to my gmail account it goes right through.

Anybody know why it would be sending mails that get rejected by these mail servers? I really need my customers to get their emails.

Sounds like it might be an SPF record issue. Contact your hosting and ask them if they can put an SPF record into your DNS entry so servers don't think you are a spammer

JAY6390 wrote:Sounds like it might be an SPF record issue. Contact your hosting and ask them if they can put an SPF record into your DNS entry so servers don't think you are a spammer

Thanks Jay, I have opened a support ticket with my host. I will update the thread with the results

JAY6390 wrote:Sounds like it might be an SPF record issue. Contact your hosting and ask them if they can put an SPF record into your DNS entry so servers don't think you are a spammer

If it was a SPF record issue wouldnt it affect all e-mails sent to a customer? As I wrote in my post earlier in this thread, I have sort of the same problem exept for changes made to status on order and the welcome email. I created myself as a customer and had same issue with the invoice not being received.
I am hosting the shop on own domainserver, DNS servers and mailserver.

// DKLeader

In your specific case I can't really comment DKLeader but since kryptonbulbs has it only affecting some emails, it could be the spam filtering software used by the ISP that has its threshold set to a higher level than others

Gmail has quite a low threshold for the SPF record, where as Hotmail is quite high. You can send emails to both with the exact same content, and Gmail will receive it and hotmail will not

In answer to your question, yes it will affect all emails sent to a customer, but only to the same customers

I had a problem where some emails were being sent but not others.

On checking the error log, I found that a module I had implemented had an undefined index call, this stopped outbound email. Upon sorting out the undefined index, the mail started going again.

Might be worth checking the error log to see if there are any errors showing when an action is performed that should send mail.

Regards, Spike.

Ah good to know Spike Thanks for sharing

Hi,

Just checked the log (believe there is only one) and it only had this :

2010-07-27 17:39:42 - PHP Warning: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /webspace/czgames/jakob/superweb.dk/www/html/shop/system/library/mail.php on line 156
2010-07-27 17:39:42 - PHP Warning: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to mail.cgdata.dk:587 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known) in /webspace/czgames/jakob/superweb.dk/www/html/shop/system/library/mail.php on line 156

But that one was a human error - entered wrong data into the mail section trying smtp.
Have tried both mail and smtp with same results. Only 2 type of emails are forwarded to the customers : welcome message and status change on orders. Tried the mail function in OpenCart and these are not forwarded either.

I was so frustrated with email delivery I simply removed all settings under the 'Mail' tab under Settings in Admin and the contact page worked and sent a mail. I was floored! I'm using 1.4.7. Could this be right?

So what's the final say/solution about this thread?
Also wondering, has this been a problem on v1.4.8b only?

Ugh, I am having the SAME problem, and find it frustrating that Opencart's Mail system is inherently flawed (apparently) and that NOBODY seems to have figured out what this problem is.

I have my mail settings setup to use SMTP, as my email server is different from my companies website host (we use an in house mail server, whereas the main website is hosted thru a hosting company).

Here's the error I'm getting, which is nearly identical to HUNDREDS of other users...

2012-04-10 17:49:26 - PHP Warning: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to incoming.johncpittmaninc.com:25 (Connection refused) in /home3/johncpit/public_html/johnpittman/opencart/system/library/mail.php on line 161
2012-04-10 17:49:26 - PHP Notice: Error: Connection refused (111) in /home3/johncpit/public_html/johnpittman/opencart/system/library/mail.php on line 164

I had thought that Opencart was the solution to my companies problem......but if they can't even make a system that has an easy-to-configure/setup mail delivery system, then I think I may need to look into alternatives.

I find it absolutely ridiculous that something that is such a basic and elementary part of ANY website is so frustratingly hard to setup properly with Opencart.