By jackspiv on

If this is the wrong place for this post, please point me to the right place ...

I have a multisite installation of drupal set up as

example.com/localsite1
example.com/localsite2

both are working well as far as I can tell, but when emails are sent out of the site ...

1) by admin function like create account, recover password, join group, etc

or

2) by users submitting email by the contact form

they fail to send and are bounced back because no recipient is included in the outgoing email.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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vm commented

you shold consider upgrading to the latest release of Drupal 5.20 to ensure that this issue hasn't already been solved in any of the 8 releases after the release you've installed.

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jackspiv commented

Thanks for replying.

I certainly have thought of upgrading. Right now, it would mean a major time investment ... I use quite a number of contrib modules and would need to sandbox test all the compatibility before going live again. My preference has been to wait till the contrib modules are available for D6 and put the effort in at that time.

Any other ideas?

I've been surprised by how few results I've gotten googling and drupal searching.

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vm commented

nope no other ideas and I don't have an old install to see if it's a old bug that has been fixed. Maybe working through the release nodes and patches that have gone into 5.x after your site.

Side note, waiting to upgrade is very risky. It's a greater time investment trying to fix a database that was exploited by publicly known exploits.

If your core is that old, I presume your contrib modules are old as well and you've multiple exploitable points in your install.

AS far as waiting for D6 modules, if modules you use now aren't ready for D6, the likely hood is that they won't ever be. Drupal 7 isn't far away.

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jackspiv commented

Thanks for the advice.

Your points are all well taken. my contribs are more recently updated than my core, but some are also old.
On your advice I will move my maintenance activity up a bunch on my priority list.

I am hoping that my database - rather than the code - is at fault. My clean installs have always worked, but this latest install in the multisite setup I am using was installed and then restored from a backup in which I did a replace on all the database table prefix names so that the installation would point to the correct tables in its own database.

This has worked well on 3 other sites, but i am a bit baffeled by this one.