email sending errors

[wmunn]

I am having difficulty getting my zencart 1.3.9h site to send emails correctly from the contact us on the zencart.

Here is what I get back in email every time someone tries to send a message from the site


A message that you sent contained one or more recipient addresses that were incorrectly constructed:

"[email protected]" <>: missing or malformed local part

This address has been ignored. There were no other addresses in your message, and so no attempt at delivery was possible.

------ This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ------

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:57:30 -0500
Return-Path: [email protected]
To: "[email protected]" <>
From: robert <[email protected]>
Reply-to: robert <[email protected]>
Subject: Message from handmade-scrunchies.com
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.73] via Zen Cart
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"



I contacted my ISP to verify what method, and they said to use sendmail without the -f
and it is trying to send, as I get the error message from their mailer. any suggestions on why my sendfrom address is being malformed?

[DrByte]

Your "to" address is using your email address as the recipients "name" and the <> means you're using a blank email address. That's why it's being rejected.

That indicates that you've entered invalid data into either the EMAIL_FROM or Contact-Us-Pulldown settings in Admin->Configuration->Email Options.

[wmunn]

this solved the problem, thanks :) so obvious, yet so obscure :)