I think I need a way to debug in more detail how Joomla is trying to send SMTP email because I can't get any of its email mechanisms working, but I feel like SMTP is the one most likely to work since I've gotten SMTP email working on the same host with other test code. The error I am receiving when trying to send a private message from the primary super user account to another super user account using Components -> Messaging -> New Private Message is as follows:
Notice
SMTP Error: data not accepted.
My SMTP settings in the global configuration are as follows:
Send Mail: Yes
Mailer: SMTP
From email: [email protected]
From name: Benjamin Marty
Disable Mass Mail: No
SMTP Authentication: Yes
SMTP Security: None
SMTP Port: 25
SMTP Username: [email protected]
SMTP Password: (same password I used in the script below)
SMTP Host: mail.sgdk2.enigmadream.com
When the failure occurred, I decided to try a test using PHPMailer from https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer and the following script recommended by Dreamhost at http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHPMailer:
<?php
/**
* This example shows making an SMTP connection with authentication.
*/
//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP timezone MUST be set
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = "mail.sgdk2.enigmadream.com";
//Set the SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
$mail->Port = 25;
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "[email protected]";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "See Comment"; // I used the same password configured above
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Benjamin Marty');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
$mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Benjamin Marty');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Ben Marty');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer SMTP test';
//if you want to include text in the body.
$mail->Body = "This is a test of email";
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
The PHP script was installed in a sub-directory of where I have Joomla installed, and it works just fine. But Joomla doesn't. How do I narrow down the problem?
