I created a test category, where I included all users under the "test" role (I created that role for testing purpuoses).

I went to /mass_contact and tried to sent a mail, but I got an error. Under the system log it appears something like this:

Error sending email: "SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: zetxek@yahoo.es" From: "zetxek@yahoo.es" To: "zetxek@yahoo.es"

By the way, as it's seen, I use an SMTP server to handle the email, with the SMTP module (maybe using a SMTP server is causing trouble to mass contact, I don't know).

Should I upgrade mass contact, or am I missing something?

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oadaeh commented

Are you sure that's a Mass Contact module error message? Might it be a SMTP Authentication module error message? When you say "system log", do you mean the Drupal watchdog logs, or the mail server/web server logs (/var/log/*, etc.)?

If you do not have any sort of mechanism for sending mail on the computer that Drupal is installed on, then you'll need something like the SMTP Authentication module, and have it pointing to an outside SMTP server. If you do have an SMTP server on the computer you have Drupal installed on, try disabling the SMTP Authentication module and see if your success rate changes.

Yes, you probably should upgrade, but try the answering the questions and checking the configuration I mentioned above, first. Also, if you do upgrade, please read the notes on the releases, as there were a couple releases with some serious problems.

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zetxek commented

Exactly, I'm using the SMPT authentification module to send the emails. Some emails are sent without problem: ie, the account restorement ones, that's why it shocked me when mass contact was not able to send emails, as I saw into the code that the function used to send the email is the same used by another email modules that are able to send them...

When I talked about the logs, I meant drupal's watchdog.

Another detail I forgot to mention is that zetxek at yahoo.es is the admin email's, the account I'm trying the module with. But there are more users under the "test" category", with distinct mail.

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zetxek commented

Well, I found a way to send them.

The problem was that I was setting as the sender email a different email to the SMTP¡s configured one, so I guess it was causing some kind or authentification problem, or some any incompatibility...

I don't know if that's the behaviour by design, if not it can imply a bug of any of the related modules (SMTP authetification, and this one).

Greetings.

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oadaeh commented
Status: Active » Fixed

These problems should be fixed in the latest versions of both the SMTP Authentication Support and Mass Contact modules. I am not planning on making any changes (other than security fixes) to the 1.x branch.

Here are the latest code changes for SMTP Authentication Support: http://drupal.org/node/95819
Here are the latest code changes for Mass Contact: http://drupal.org/node/160686

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.