I get an error "Email could not be sent" when I try to email an item using the the top tool bar. Is this a bug or are there other reasons it wouldn't work?

www.villagechronicles.net

Emailing my Joomla Articles with the core email button does work fine.

Martha

I have the same problem. Did you resolve it?

Me too... any further information woudl be gratly appreciated

Hello,

I have resolved this problem in following way:

open the file components/com_mailto/controller.php

Locate the following line of code (approximatively line 57):

if ($timeout == 0 || time() - $timeout < 20)

 

Change the line to:

if ($timeout == 0 || time() - $timeout > 20)

 

Save, upload and test. You can increase the time from 20 to say 50.

Trying it now, and thanks for the prompt reply!O is for Awesome (local humour)

 

Hmmm.. sorry that didn;t worki've updated Joomla to 1.5.23The syntax I have is as follows

 

$timeout = $session->get('com_mailto.formtime', time());  if($timeout == 0 || time() - $timeout < MAILTO_TIMEOUT) {I changed this to;$timeout = $session->get('com_mailto.formtime', time());

if ($timeout == 0 || time() - $timeout > 20) {Warning I'm no programmer... that didn't work - have I done somehting stupidly obvious?

I'm using PHP mail function in the joomla backend with SMTP Authentication set to 'No'Any ideas?

 

I'm sorry but I found this solution in this website www.voodish.co.uk, but it seems not work at all today.

As it is a bug of joomla try to see in Joomla.org forum

I need a fix for this too. joomla 1.5.23 and K2

 

Same problem here with J1.5.23 and K2, and I got the email sending function works well, but it cause another problem.

I found it's not the problem of $timeout parametter.

See this in file controller.php in com_mailto:

/ /we return time() instead of 0 (as it previously was), so that the session variable has to be set in order to send the mail         $timeout = $session->get('com_mailto.formtime', time());         if($timeout == 0 || time() - $timeout < MAILTO_TIMEOUT) {             JError::raiseNotice( 500, JText:: _ ('EMAIL_NOT_SENT' ));             return $this->mailto();.... and

        // Verify that this is a local link         if((!$link) || (!JURI::isInternal($link))) {             //Non-local url...              JError::raiseNotice( 500, JText:: _ ('EMAIL_NOT_SENT' ));             return $this->mailto();         }


There are two cases when sending email can cause Joomla show you the "EMAIL_NOT_SENT" parameter in com_mailto in language file. Just change the first EMAIL_NOT_SENT to Error 1 (caused by $timeout) and the second EMAIL_NOT_SENT to Error 2 or whatever you want and then comeback with sending email function of K2. Then you will see it show you the Error 2, mean this error caused by something related to "if((!$link) || (!JURI::isInternal($link)))".

But sorry, I'm not a programmer and I just don't know how to fix :P, I even don't know what it does in com_mailto. I just delete it and email sending goes fine! Here are lines I deleted:

        // Verify that this is a local link         if((!$link) || (!JURI::isInternal($link))) {             //Non-local url...              JError::raiseNotice( 500, JText:: _ ('EMAIL_NOT_SENT' ));             return $this->mailto();         }


When this deleted, email sending works ok, but there is no link to you article included in the email. That's is "another problem" I mentiond before :P

If anyone could help, please let me know

 

 

 

 

I ended up editing the K2 template (item.php) and replacing the email code with a sharethis.com code that only showed Email This Page option.

Not elegant but it works. Would be nice if the K2 developers could help address get to the core of the problem as it seems it is K2 and not Joomla Core to me.