megabyte - 17 October 2007 12:51 AM
Just curious if anyone has had any problems with the activation email.
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I just got an email from someone with a hotmail account saying they never got an activation email so I turned it off once again.
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Just wondering if anyone has had the same issue.
Yes, i have recently had the same issue, Hotmail seems to be veeerry picking about the emails that it accepts… as mentioned, sometimes it wont even make their junk folder, Hotmail just rejects it completely (and silently?)...
To fix it, I overrode the _sendEmail() function (in my application/libraries/MyFAL.php) to use the PHP mailer class instead of the CI mailer class..
function _sendEmail($email, $subject, $message)
{
/* this is the original code
$tobj =& get_instance();
$tobj->load->library('email');
$tobj->email->clear();
$tobj->email->from($this->CI->config->item('FAL_user_support'), $this->CI->config->item('FAL_website_name').' '.$this->CI->config->item('FAL_email_from'));
$tobj->email->to($email);
$tobj->email->subject($subject);
$tobj->email->message($message);
$tobj->email->send();
*/
/* this is the new code */
$from = $this->CI->config->item('FAL_website_name').' '.$this->CI->config->item('FAL_email_from').' <'.$this->CI->config->item('FAL_user_support').'>';
$headers = 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $from . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if ( !mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers) )
die('It didnt go through!');
}
(slightly modified for this post, please test before using!)
I think it has something to do with the headers that get sent with the email, as they are slightly different between the CI and PHP mailer class… I guess if you figured out the specific issue, you could override the CI mailer class… but this quick fixed worked for me…
Also, while this worked for me to actually get the emails through to Hotmail accounts, I can’t guarantee that they won’t still land in the Junk folder… there is a LOT of variables in play with email servers and spam filters these days, enough to send you mad… =]
Cheers,
Michael
