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v.fr

1. Pour les pages d'administration, il faut éditer dirctement les fichiers, il n'y a pas de variables déclarées pour cela. Si tu veux, je l'ai fait pour ma copie de punbb, donc je peux t'envoyer mes fichiers, mais je dois les "nettoyer" un peu car j'ai modifié d'autres choses...

2. Aucune idée, je n'ai pas encore joué avec le mailer, mais cela ne devrait pas être trop compliqué...
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v.en.

1. In the admin pages, you have to modify the sentences directly in the files, there are no variables for that. If you want, I've done it for myself so I can send you my files (they are not too heavily modded... I hope...)

2. No idea since haven't messed up with the mailer yet, but that shouldn't be too hard to do.

That's what I do but the adress i enter is not the adress which appear in sent mail. I also tell you that I do not use any smtp because when I do there is an error.
So it doesn't work as I want it to.

Have you got a solution

The adress e-mail which appears is the default one used by my host.
So, as my web site is http://ldevergne.free.fr/forum e-mails are sent from ldevergne at free dot fr

Thanks for your answers,

LD

PS: I ad that i've tried with others smtp (with or without authentification, with or without pass) and always the same problem occured :
"an error was encountered, could not connect to smtp host"
What's the problem with smtp?
I also ad that my smtp works with outlook. (smtp.free.fr)

It happens for example when a user has forgotten his pass and ask for receiving a new one by mail.

As I told you, I've tried whith a username and a password and it doesn't work. I also tried without password and username and it doesn't work yet. It's strange because as I told you, with outlook my username and pass make it work.

Respectfully,

Ludo

Ok, I there's several different issues at play here, so lets eliminate the red herrings and focus on the problem.

When you try to use SMTP - it doesn't connect.
When you try to use the local mailer it has the wrong email address.

So first, lets ignore the SMTP method.

So, using the local mailer, punBB injects the email via PHPs mail() function via its own pun_mail() wrapper function in includes.email.php

Depending on your PHP install *AND* the mail injection program that is used this MAY result in the SMTP envelope address using the From: address you specify - otherwise it MAY end up as the user@host that the webserver runs as - regardless of any admin options you set in punBB.

So, the question now is - What emailer is running on the punBB webserver?
Also, what is the sendmail_path = line in your php.ini
Finally, can you post as sample header from an email that is delivered via this route?

Given these answers, I am sure I can point you in the right direction.

Paul.

[addition] Rickard: you might like to change the email.php from:
function pun_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from = '')
to
function pun_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from = '', $extra='')

and the call from:
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
to
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $extra);

to prepare the code to be able to pass "-f [adminemail]" in the extra arg for some webservers.

Other MTAs such as QMAIL, you have to use: (iirc)
putenv('QMAILSUSER=sendername');
putenv('QMAILSHOST=senderhost');
before you call the mail();

I've had some problems dealing with mail() and the 5:th arg in a win32 dev env.
Just FYI.

Oh dear!  Well this certainly puts the cat among the pigeons....

This probably isn't going to help, but it shows that the local machine runs postfix and that the form2mail.pl injects directly to this.  The machine is not running (or listening) on the SMTP port, so you can't use the SMTP method.

First thing to try: Do you have shell access?  If so, look up some documentation on postfix and find out what program controls the injection of email from the shell.  Even if you don't have shell access, find this out anyway.  Then you're going to have to do some hacking of email.php.  If you aren't good with PHP, then I'd give up now, because this involves a popen() to open a handle to the injection program and then fwrite() to manually enter the email including headers.

The second option, is another hack job   It involves reading up on cURL www.php.net/curl and having PHP generate a POST call to your formmail.pl url to send the email.

Good luck.

I guess you dont have shell access then.

look in phpinfo() and let us know what sendmail_path is set to.  Also ask your host why mail() is broken or disabled.  It is very rare for ISPs to disable mail() since that's perhaps the single most useful feature in PHP (for companies hosting their sites).

Well, I hate to be the one to point this out, but the 5th arg is (as the manual notes) is passed as additional parameters to the sendmail_path program, which by definition is unix only; therefore the 5th arg has no relevance to Win32.

Hmm, ok - this might work:

$email = <<<EOMAIL
From: ludo <ludo at free d0t fr>
To: ludo <ludo at free d0t fr>
Subject: Test

testing

EOMAIL;
$fh = popen('/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i', 'w');
fwrite($fh, $email);
fclose($fh);

If this works, then there is your method for sending emails...

Yeah, that is why i brought it up so pun won't break if the changed is implemented

[addition] Rickard: you might like to change the email.php from:
function pun_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from = '')
to
function pun_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from = '', $extra='')

and the call from:
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
to
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $extra);

to prepare the code to be able to pass "-f [adminemail]" in the extra arg for some webservers.

Even using a empty 5th arg will give error on win32.

Just put it in it's own php file and run it - it is a test to see if we can make PHP send an email.

Email changed.

Guess they have removed sendmail then.  Start reading up on cURL - you will be able to use curl to make a e.g. curlmail() function which creates a POST to your formmail.pl script to send the email.

It's a non-trivial task - not impossible, but beyond the scope and time I have available here.  Good luck.