Topic: Emailing invoices
I have FA 1.16 and when I try to sent invoices by email the report genenerator comes back and sez ...... email NOT sent
I have looked all over the place for a SMTP setting Please help
Re: Emailing invoices
I guess you need to set an email address in the branch. There was a problem in 1.16 only having an email on the customer. Also make sure there is a sender email in the Company Setup.
You do not need to set any SMTP setting. FA uses PHP internal mail function.
/Joe
3 09/21/2008 06:30:16 am (edited by Attila 09/21/2008 06:31:32 am)
Re: Emailing invoices
Joe,
The email address are in both company and branch for all the customers.
In the customer branch maintanance page the email fileld is a maito: link which brings up a new email window does not automaticaly insert the ajacent email
this is what I get when emailing an invoice
From: Comodex Int. (attilab@comodexint.co.za)
To: African Spirit Trading 14 Pty Ltd (aterren@ast14.co.za)
Subject: Invoice no. 5022
Msg: Dear Sirs,
Attached you will find Invoice no. 5022
Kindest regards
Attila Barath
Comodex Int.
Filepath: ./pdf_files/Invoice5022.pdf
Filename: Invoice5022.pdf
INVOICE 5022 NOT sent to African Spirit Trading 14 Pty Ltd - aterren@ast14.co.za
I cant see anything wrong
/attila
Re: Emailing invoices
There seem to be valid email addresses in both sender and receiver. I cannot say what the problem is. Some hosts need the sender email be part of the website. Otherwise I can see no problem. Normally this works right out of the box. Maybe there are others who can help here?
/Joe
Re: Emailing invoices
Joe
I have disabled my virus protection and the same condition prevailes.....
Re: Emailing invoices
Guys,
I can't email documents from FA 2.1.0 , same problem as with FA 1.16 is anyone else having the same problem ?
what SMTP server is the system is using ?
Attila
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Hello Attila,
You have found a bug in document mailing. I will check the code and fix CVS ASAP. If you are in a hurry, as simple, but not complete solution please add '/' at beginning of relative path in line 422 of pdf_report.inc.
Janusz
Re: Emailing invoices
Thanks Janusz,
I will wait for the permenant fix,
Looking through the smtp.php file I see a lot of refrence to "localhost" as a mail server. Should I be running a Smtp server on th host as well ?
Re: Emailing invoices
Me AGAIN on emailing Invoices/Credit notes directly from the system.
Guys please read the last post I made on this subject, you left me dangling in space.
Error : Sending document by email failed
This was my previous question: are we supposed to be running our own SMTP server. ?
regards
Attila
Last edited by Attila (Yesterday 04:44:42 am)
Re: Emailing invoices
After the fix mailing invoices works right. To use it you should have sendmail (or compatible) installed on your FA server. See php.net mail() function manual. Google is also your friend.
Janusz
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Thanks Januzs,
This makes sense, I am using XAMPP so now I will enable Mercury mail.
Dont tell me google is my friend .... read the message below of the 1st of April and see where the breakdown in comms came in
Im afraid its YOU kind Sir
Take care
Attila
Re: Emailing invoices
I think he was referring to using Google to find articles on how to get sendmail working with php.
FA calls the PHP functions to send mail and they will work only if your php and system (sendmail, etc) are set up properly.
tom
Re: Emailing invoices
tom wrote:
I think he was referring to using Google to find articles on how to get sendmail working with php.
Exactly. I do my best to fix all bugs found ASAP, but I'm not responsible for configuration of FA user's site.
Attila wrote:
Im afraid its YOU kind Sir
I have fixed the problem, I have pushed the solution to CVS and I have explained how to fix it manually. The fix was made available also with latest FA release. What could I do more to satisfy you Sir?
Janusz
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Gents,
I was have some fun .... no harm intended ...
Re: Emailing invoices
Ok, no problem. That was long, weary day for me, so take it easy 
.
Janusz
Re: Emailing invoices
Sorry to jump in here (after searching), but it seems very related...
I have this error:
mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 553 5.1.3 syntax error; address contains 8bit characters: Ville d'Amos <mireille.xxxxx@ville.amos.qc.ca > in file: C:\Data\SitesWeb\rimqfa\reporting\includes\class.mail.inc at line 138
Sending document by email failed
I'm using 2.2.8
What is the fix ?
Thanks
Re: Emailing invoices
This can be related to charset selection in ma class. In 2.2.x the charset was set always to ISO-8859-1. In FA 2.3 it was fixed. You can try change the charset to the one you use about line 58 and 65 of /reporting/includes/class.mail.inc.
Janusz
Re: Emailing invoices
Sorry Januzs,
But I don't understand what I'm supposed to do,
Could you be more explicit ?
Thanks
Gaston
19 06/08/2010 01:35:39 am (edited by thhui 06/08/2010 01:37:03 am)
Re: Emailing invoices
If you are using windows XAMPP, the php Mail function might not allow you to send mail by SMTP.
It depends on what your ISP setting on SMTP is.
If it use SMTP Authentication, php Mail might not work.
Re: Emailing invoices
Sorry, there was a typo in my post.
You can change charset declarations in lines 58 and 65 of /reporting/includes/class.mail.inc to the encoding you are actually using in your system.
Janusz
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Janusz,
I'm a little bit embarrassed to ask, and sorry if it is obvious for you, but how do I know the charset I use ?
Gaston
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I guess you have installed some translation package for FA (french?). The charset (encoding) should be noiced in documentation to the package, or you can read it form *.po file's header. If you do not use any translation package,
Janusz
Re: Emailing invoices
seems correct (from .po file)
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"X-Poedit-Language: French\n"
"X-Poedit-Country: FRANCE\n"
"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: iso-8859-1\n"
Gaston
24 06/09/2010 06:03:01 am (edited by thhui 07/21/2010 02:32:48 pm)
Re: Emailing invoices
Test your smtp server Mail funcion firstly.
upload this test_email.php to your server site and open it
<?php
$to = "someone@example.com"; //change to your own email address to test whether you can receive mail from your php.ini setting
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>and then see whether you can receive email or not.
This is really a test for proper email function in your php hosting setting.
Re: Emailing invoices
It should be noted, from personal experience, if sendmail (or sendmail friendly equivalent like postfix) is installed but is not running (or perhaps not running properly) php may not complain that there has been an error. The mail will be successfully sent with the sendmail program but is either queued or lost so you won't ever receive the email.