Download & Extend
Mime Mail » Issues

Mimemail returns white screen of death if your site cannot send email

Posted by SocialNicheGuru on April 6, 2009 at 8:58pm
Project:Mime Mail
Version:6.x-1.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:bug report
Priority:critical
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)

Issue Summary

issue: if you cannot send email from your site, mimemail does not return an error message to screen. Instead returns white screen
Fix: remove mimemail until you can get email working on your system
Request: can an error message be written to logs and mimemail not return a white screen but instead return an error message to screen

Notes:
It took me a day to figure out why I keep getting a white screen whenever my site tried to send out emails.

I removed all modules from the modules directory and methodically put each module back in.

I noticed that I received a sys admin message on screen about not being able to send mail (I had to remove all modules. I did not think of looking in the /var/log/mail because I did not get any php errors written to watchdog. Hmmm... I should look at syslog also).

When adding mimemail my screen went blank.

Steps:
request new password
enter email address
press send
WSOD

Login or register to post comments

Comments

#1

Posted by chawl on April 9, 2009 at 3:08pm

Same issue with Drupal 6.10 and simplenews latest dev, subscribing.

#2

Posted by chawl on April 9, 2009 at 6:35pm

I tried disabling "Mime Mail CSS Combiner" module and WSOD disappeared and email worked.

Can anyone confirm?

#3

Posted by yang_yi_cn on April 17, 2009 at 8:45pm

exactly, it takes me hours to find out that there's something wrong in the MIME Mail CSS Combiner. It may be some PHP related, because on my WAMP (PHP 5.2.9) it works with MIME Mail CSS Combiner enabled, but the Linux server (Redhat Enterprise 5.2), which I installed PHP 5.2.8, it causes WSOD.

#4

Posted by chawl on April 18, 2009 at 2:01pm

Hmm, confirming WSOD for PHP 5.2.6 on Centos 5.

#5

Posted by gdaley on April 21, 2009 at 9:17am

I had the same problem.

Did you check to see if you had the PHP DOM module (php-xml package) installed on your server?

#6

Posted by kenorb on May 6, 2009 at 4:20pm
Status:active» needs review

I get into the same problem.

Try latest dev, its working for me.

There was DIE in the code.

<?php
  if ($mailkey) {
    $key = check_plain($mailkey);
    $key = str_replace(' ','-', trim($key));
    print_r($key); die;
...
?>

#7

Posted by sgabe on March 14, 2010 at 11:30am
Status:needs review» closed (fixed)

Already fixed in the latest development snapshot. Closing this issue.

#8

Posted by yan on May 20, 2010 at 3:31pm

Same issue here. Where can I find the latest development snapshot? This one says it was last updated in 2009.

Will there be a release with the fix soon? I mean, this really breaks the module's functionality.

#9

Posted by kenorb on May 20, 2010 at 4:12pm

On the project page you have version from March 2010.
If this problem appears on that version, please raise separate issue, because this one is closed.
Probably your case is related to something else.