drupal on fasthosts won't send email

9 June, 2009 - 19:13 — martinjevans

Ok, I'm new to drupal but I set up an email action to email me and associated it with a new comment. Then I added a comment as someone else and no email arrived. Then I found Using Drupal's email address in the mail.inc main function with -f which seemed to suggest the from address must be set if you are on fasthosts. Anyway the patch provided to mail.inc worked just fine. I include it here, partly as a reminder to me that I made this change:

--- mail.inc.orig 2008-01-25 17:04:00.000000000 +0000

+++ mail.inc.new 2008-04-05 20:35:52.991525652 +0100

@@ -181,13 +181,19 @@ function drupal_mail_send($message) {

foreach ($message['headers'] as $name => $value) {

$mimeheaders[] = $name .': '. mime_header_encode($value);

}

+

+ // added 5.4.08

+ // fasthosts needs -f parameter

+ $from = variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));

+

return mail(

$message['to'],

mime_header_encode($message['subject']),

// Note: e-mail uses CRLF for line-endings, but PHP's API requires LF.

// They will appear correctly in the actual e-mail that is sent.

str_replace("\r", '', $message['body']),

- join("\n", $mimeheaders)

+ join("\n", $mimeheaders),

+ "-f$from"

);

}

}

BTW, I can find an API reference to variable_get and can see it gets 'site_email' and defaults to 'sendmail_from' but where the hell would 'sendmail_from' actually go assuming I wanted a different email address to the 'site_email'.