Cannot send email after upgrade

[Kidult]

Hi,
I follow the Upgrade instruction "Remove Payment & Shipping Module" before upgrade from v1.5.1. After upgrade, I was trying to install the payment & shipping module. But it came to a blank screen, and I figure out from the error log that there's a PHP Fatal error:

'PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method PHPMailer::SetFrom() in /home/domain/public_html/includes/functions/functions_email.php on line 25'

Sound like the error exist when trying to send email to the default Admin email when there's a change in Configuration. And I can 'Install' the modules once I turn off the email function.

Any idea on howto fix it? Thanks!

[DrByte]

I'm guessing your /includes/classes/ files and subdirectories may be outdated or didn't upload fully. There were several files added there in v1.5.3, and some of them replaced old versions by the same name. If your uploads didn't complete properly then you'll be missing important components, and thus will get errors such as you mentioned.

[rockandroller]

I just downloaded the official 1.5.3 package, and I can confirm that it has SetFrom in line 254 - kills the contact Us form dead!
( functions_email.php in /includes/functions )
v1.5.3-07192014 is the package I have downloaded - all else appears to be working OK (upgraded from 1.5.1)

So I commented out that line, and added

	  $mail->From = $from_email_address;
	  $mail->FromName = $from_email_name;

this is working fine...

[Nick1973]

Bizarrely I was getting a similar situation when trying to set up payment modules in the admin. When I tried to install a Payment Mod no matter which one, it kept going to a white screen and logging me out.

Obviously the first place I looked was in the logs/ADMIN DEBUG files and I found this.

[29-Oct-2014 19:50:54] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method PHPMailer::SetFrom() in /MYSERVERPATH/includes/functions/functions_email.php on line 254

Tried uploading a copy of functions_email.php from a virgin Zen Cart 1.5.3..still no luck!

So found this thread and made the change as suggested by rockandroller above and it resolved the issue.

My only concern is, does it cause any security issues in the functions_email.php or any other issues in the 1.5.3 by changing $mail->SetFrom($from_email_address, $from_email_name); to

$mail->From = $from_email_address;
$mail->FromName = $from_email_name;

Would be interested to hear back!

[lat9]

Are you sure that you uploaded the Zen Cart v1.5.3 file /includes/classes/class.phpmailer.php? That module definitely has the SetFrom function defined.

Additionally, check to make sure that the file /includes/auto_loaders/overrides/config.core.php doesn't exist. If it does, rename it to config.core.php~ and see if that doesn't clear the issue up.

[Nick1973]

Are you sure that you uploaded the Zen Cart v1.5.3 file /includes/classes/class.phpmailer.php? That module definitely has the SetFrom function defined.

Additionally, check to make sure that the file /includes/auto_loaders/overrides/config.core.php doesn't exist. If it does, rename it to config.core.php~ and see if that doesn't clear the issue up.

No that doesn't exist and includes/classes/class.phpmailer.php is installed. This was a site developed from a clean install of Zen Cart 1.5.3

It wasn't an upgrade.