When users register themselves on my site they get 2 messages:

"Could not instantiate mail function"
and
"Registration failed" An error was encountered while sending activation notification"

I am using MS Outlook 2010.

Will appreciate help

Thanks

Julie

Hi Julie,
Is it a new site or did it work before and just stopped working?
Have you checked in your site configuration to see if your php or send mail
settings are correct?

If everything was working fine before then you need to find out from your
host if they have changed anything with regards to php or their smtp server.

If they have not changed anything then you ned to figure out what was
installed or changed on the site since it last worked properly.

Good luck,
David

www.serotonin.co.za
http://serotonininspiration.ourtoolbar.com/
On Nov 20, 2012 12:01 PM, "Julie Steffers" <jsteff...@fhr.org.za> wrote:

Thanks Mark

Changing the email settings as per your first paragraph did the trick.

Kind regards

Julie

From: joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com [mailto:joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Brindley
Sent: 20 November 2012 01:32 PM
To: joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [SAJUG] User registration and activation

Hello Julie,

You are getting this message because you have either not set up the Email Settings in Joomla! Global Configuration or they are incorrect.
To resolve this issue, I recommend setting up Joomla to use SMTP rather than the PHP mail function().

You are on a local server (using WAMP for example)
This kind of web server does not have a mail server so you can't send e-mails from your local server.

Your ISP has blocked access to PHP mail function().
Spam is on the rise big time and simply allowing web application to send email is not a good thing.
Forcing a user to use SMTP gives service providers a level of control and monitoring.

What's the solution? use an external SMTP server instead of using the PHP mail function(). This will work on your live server

Regards,
Mark Brindley
028-316-2469
(Skype) kram-brindley
http://www.2large.co.za<http://www.2large.co.za/>
[joomla_hostprov_sm]<http://resources.joomla.org/directory/support-services/hosting/2large...>

From: joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com [mailto:joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Julie Steffers
Sent: 20 November 2012 01:06 PM
To: joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com
Subject: [SAJUG] User registration and activation

When users register themselves on my site they get 2 messages:

"Could not instantiate mail function"
and
"Registration failed" An error was encountered while sending activation notification"

I am using MS Outlook 2010.

Will appreciate help

Thanks

Julie
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Thanks David.

You are right.  The fault was in the configuration.

Kind regards

Julie

From: joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com [mailto:joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Degbor
Sent: 20 November 2012 01:26 PM
To: joomlasouthernafrican@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [SAJUG] User registration and activation

Hi Julie,
Is it a new site or did it work before and just stopped working?
Have you checked in your site configuration to see if your php or send mail settings are correct?

If everything was working fine before then you need to find out from your host if they have changed anything with regards to php or their smtp server.

If they have not changed anything then you ned to figure out what was installed or changed on the site since it last worked properly.

Good luck,
David

www.serotonin.co.za<http://www.serotonin.co.za>
http://serotonininspiration.ourtoolbar.com/
On Nov 20, 2012 12:01 PM, "Julie Steffers" <jsteff...@fhr.org.za<mailto:jsteff...@fhr.org.za>> wrote:
When users register themselves on my site they get 2 messages:

"Could not instantiate mail function"
and
"Registration failed" An error was encountered while sending activation notification"

I am using MS Outlook 2010.

Will appreciate help

Thanks

Julie
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