Simple Invoices - Forum

hey rkolech

if your host doesn't allow email out - i know my old host didn't allow this - than this may be causing the - but i not 100% sure on that

have you entered a username/password etc.. for smtp in the config.ini file?

cheers

justin

Thanks for your reply Justin
I am trying to use the gmail smtp server. Here are the settins that I am using, got the details from the gmail website:

email.host = smtp.gmail.com
email.smtp_auth = true
email.username = [email protected]
email.password = gmail_password
email.smtpport = 587
email.secure = ssl
email.ack = false


Has anyone used gmail successfully with this application? As for my host, they do allow email, and they also have an smtp server. As of right now I don't have any mailboxes set up with them though, they are just forwards to my gmail.

hey rkolech

gmail is a pain to use with phpmail (the php class we are using for email) once we swap to zend_mail will be ok

so basically i don't think you'll get Simple Invoices working with gmail smtp
- ask your host - maybe you can use their smtp server

cheers

justin

Hello Justin,

I have tried to use my hosts mail server and still no luck, the issue seems to be with the mail class running out of memory, I put bad data into the config file to see what error I would get, and it was totally different. So I am guessing that the settings are correct.

I then got a newer version of phpmailer but still getting the exact same error, but now its on a different line number as the code has changed and that line has moved. I am all out of ideas at this point. I notices a Zend folder in the library folder. Can I configure the application to use Zend instead of phpmailer?

Thanks.

I have a partial fix, which will lead you to a bigger problem:
Download this patch: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=26031&atid=385710&file_id=226836&aid=1708567

Now SSL should work fine, but Gmail also uses STARTTLS. PHPMailer will give you this error: Mailer Error: Language string failed to load: from_failed. STARTTLS requires that the connection must be made before trying to send an e-mail (phpmailer::SmtpConnect()) and that's going wrong. I haven't found a solution for that yet.

@rkolech
re zend
- you can try - you have to redo all the Simple Invoices email code - refer post below
-- if your interested in doing this - would be a great help to Simple Invoices

@starscream
- might be quicker to swap phpmailer for zend_email
-- just need to redo the email code in http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/source/browse/trunk/modules/invoices/email.php

cheers

justin

You're right Justin, moving to Zend Email would fix it. Will take a look at it next week, if rkolech doesn't answer anymore.

I've finished the implementation. Anyone who wants to test it before I commit it? Gmail seems to work for me now. I only couldn't implement ACK, what's it used for? Also there seems to be a problem when I catch exceptions, so the error handling is a bit nasty.

Regards Starscream

Oke, I just committed it for everyone. The exception handling is fine now, BTW.

thanks !!!

note: http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/source/browse/trunk/modules/invoices/email.php?spec=svn2672&r=2672#13
- shouldn't need that error_reporting as is defined in config.ini

cheers

justin

re ACk
- this was for read recipts of emails
- not sure if zend_mail can do read receipts

cheers

justin

Committed the new version. Couldn't find ACK support in the documentation nor in the code..

PS: For Gmail set the 'email.secure' configuration to 'tls' instead of 'ssl'.

thanks

you can remove the email.ack property from config.ini if you want

cheers

justin

@justin wht is the e-mail.ack property do exactly?