I am not sure if this is the right location for this thread. But I am running Zen Cart on my PC using localhost. When I try to login as a user to test the buying experieince I get the following error:
Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function. Please check Admin->Configuration->Email Options->Email Transport.
Even though my Email transport method under Configuration is PHP.
Any help, thanks.
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29 Sep 2010, 01:42 AM #1
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29 Sep 2010, 03:06 AM #2
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
Your localhost PC almost certainly has no mailserver engine on it. And, since you won't be running a real live store from it, it's better that you turn off email functionality ("Enable Email" = False) until you actually put your site on a real webserver that's capable of email.
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29 Sep 2010, 06:02 AM #3
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
Great, will do that. So then how do I test checkout a product from my store on localhost?
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29 Sep 2010, 03:02 PM #4
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
Um ... add it to your cart and go through checkout.
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29 Sep 2010, 09:31 PM #5
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
Thanks, Dr Byte for helping me.
So when I try to login using my site login, Paypal Checkout or even register a new account I get the sane message. I know this has to do with some settings to make the localhost work, just don't know which one because it works when the site is live.
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29 Sep 2010, 09:44 PM #6
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
What message? If it's telling you about a problem sending emails, then you've still not turned off emailing as I mentioned earlier.
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30 Sep 2010, 09:07 AM #7
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
It might be caused by a missing mailserver.
Originally Posted by zc_fan
I use smtp4dev (just google it) which is a low-weight, easy to install stmp server for development on windows
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30 Sep 2010, 05:13 PM #8
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Re: Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function.
I thought that's what I said already.
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