By cayenne on

I'm running several sites on a dedicated server.

A few (not sure how many) days ago, mail went kablooie. Specifically, users of webforms, password reset, contact, and a custom module of mine, get the dreaded "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists." message.

When an email is sent using the contact form, it arrives with a blank body.

This is a multisite installation, and other sites, as I said, are not having this problem. Can anyone provide a pointer to where else in the site configuration the problem might exist?

THanks...

PS I'm running D6.14 with all modules updated. It's on a LAMP system with PHP 5.1x.

The only recent material change I can identify was the installation of SimpleNews, which I have subsequently uninstalled for other reasons, with no change in the problem.

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cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

After disabling, and in many cases uninstalling, extraneous modules (blog, simplenews, htmlmail, mimemail, etc) the site is now sending mails, but the content is blank. Again, other sites on the same server are working.

Suggestions or even cruel taunts are welcome.

Michael

:)

ericinwisconsin’s picture

ericinwisconsin commented

Michael, have you tried sending the emails to several different accounts on different mail servers? Sometimes mail servers receiving the mail want only text-based emails and will strip out html code. If the webserver also handles email, try sending it to that one and see what you get.

I don't know if all of those services you mentioned send out in html, but most of them do and I'll bet your html is being stripped from the messages somewhere along the way. Either that, or it's being parsed as an attachment.

Regards,
Eric

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mcfilms commented

Check to see if you have the mimemail module installed. That caused me similar troubles. For whatever reason, disabling it did not seem to help. But when I removed it from my sites/all/modules folder, it fixed things.

A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com

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cayenne commented

Thank you Mcfilms!

I'm gonna go off to post a polite but firm report on the mimemail project site. This is not as it should be.

Thank you again, and to all (both) who chimed in.

:)