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• Bob Reeves Member

  September 2011

  Further to the above I can confirm that the server error log has no errors in it after 23/08/2011 (I have tried the contact form today).
  
  PHP Version 5.2.6
  
  Sendmail is enabled.
• acrylian Administrator, Developer

  September 2011

  Did you specific an email address on the main option to send FROM? Some servers require this to be an existing address on that server.
• Bob Reeves Member

  September 2011

  Thanks for the reply acrylian,
  
  I am a little confused I can not seem to find the "main option"
  
  I have set the email address at the bottomof the contact_form within options>plugins
• acrylian Administrator, Developer

  September 2011

  That is the address to send to. The one to send from is on Options > Gallery at the bottom. Often it works with anything but not on all servers.
  
  If it does not work with a real mail address you have on your server best contact your host what to use.
• Bob Reeves Member

  September 2011

  I have found the site email at the bottom of the options > general Page, Ihave it set to the ame email address as the form.
  
  On earlier php forms i had to put in the following to make it work;
  
  ini_set("sendmail_from","xxx@xxxxxxxx.co.uk");
  ini_set("SMTP","smtp.xxxxxx.co.uk");
  
  Would this work if it was included in the code, if so where would I put it.
• Bob Reeves Member

  September 2011

  I have just read the following on my hosts help files, I hope this will help, and how do I implement it.
  
  "If you are using a third party script to send email remember to set the sendmail_from variable (using ini_set('sendmail_from',email_from)), add the fifth -f parameter, and send the email either to, or from, a Fasthosts hosted email address".
• acrylian Administrator, Developer

  September 2011

  I guess you need to set the ini value manually, best via htaccess if possible, for now. Or try the phpmail plugin instead.
• Bob Reeves Member

  September 2011

  Thanks for your time and help, the php mail plugin worked.