[RESOLVED] PHP Mail() giving me issues

[Dji]

Hey everyone new to the forum and excited to participate.

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to solve a bug I am receiving from PHP's mail function. I run a tikiwiki website https://dev.tiki.org/Development for reference.
One of the features the website has is sending daily email reports to users who want to know what changes have happened on the website each day. Right now one of my sites is refusing to send out these reports and I have tracked the bug down to being some interaction between tiki's source code and the default php mail function. When I attempt to send these daily reports I am greeted with.

More than one "from" person

This is the line where the error occurs

$this->mail->send(array($userData['email']));

The purpose of this line is to pass an array of user emails (the people to receive reports) to the mail() function for sending. I have already looked at the array and it is generated correctly, the issue is most likely not there.

I have learned this is an error thrown by PHP. Everything I have looked at has said that this has to do with the parameters of sendmail_path in the php.ini. All forum posts and help has mentioned that in order to fix this bug I need to remove the -f flag from this setting. The problem is, my sendmail_path is the default setting. That is to say:

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

I have attempted to change this to just be the -t flag or just be the -i flag with no luck. Could anyone offer any insight as to why I am getting the more than one "from" person error?

Thanks

[dalecosp]

What's the software? Custom? Joomla? Is it using the PHPMailer library?

[Dji]

I am under the impression it is just using the PHPMailer library.

[Dji]

If it helps this is the function that is used to send daily reports.

public function sendEmail($userData, $reportPreferences, $reportCache)
        {
        //      global $prefs;
                $tikilib = TikiLib::lib('tiki');
                $lgSave  = $prefs['language'];
                $prefs['language'] = $tikilib->get_user_preference($userData['login'], "language"); //Change language according to user's prefs.
                $mailData = $this->builder->emailBody($userData, $reportPreferences, $reportCache);
                $this->mail->setUser($userData['login']);
                $this->setSubject($reportCache);
                if ($reportPreferences['type'] == 'plain') {
                        $this->mail->setText($mailData);
                } else {
                        $this->mail->setHtml($mailData);
                }
                $this->mail->send(array($userData['email']));
                $prefs['language'] = $lgSave;  //Restore language settings
        }

[dalecosp]

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=622&t=727375

[Dji]

Cheers. I will attempt this fix and report back when I work again on Monday.

[Dji]

I was able to get the functionality of my daily reports working again by changing from tiki's mail sender to SMTP. This does not solve any of the issues I was having with tiki's sendmail as all errors still exist there. Changing to SMTP did allow my site to send emails and reports again, so it is what I will be using from now on. I wish I knew what the source of the errors was, but if SMTP works I will just use that.

Thanks

[sneakyimp]

Your post doesn't really offer a lot of specific code examples to specify what's going on. I'd point something out.:

public function sendEmail($userData, $reportPreferences, $reportCache)
        {
        //      global $prefs;
                $tikilib = TikiLib::lib('tiki');
                $lgSave  = $prefs['language'];
                $prefs['language'] = $tikilib->get_user_preference($userData['login'], "language"); //Change language according to user's prefs.
                $mailData = $this->builder->emailBody($userData, $reportPreferences, $reportCache);
                $this->mail->setUser($userData['login']);
                $this->setSubject($reportCache);
                if ($reportPreferences['type'] == 'plain') {
                        $this->mail->setText($mailData);
                } else {
                        $this->mail->setHtml($mailData);
                }
                $this->mail->send(array($userData['email']));
                $prefs['language'] = $lgSave;  //Restore language settings
        } 

Note this line:

$this->mail->send(array($userData['email']))

if $userData['email'] is already an array then you are going to define an array with only one member that is itself an array.