Could not instantiate mail function but only for admin settings changes

[mc12345678]

Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

I am not sure what mc means as a work around.

The field being used to send the notification is the one identified as STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS which is the field associated with Configuration->E-mail Options->E-mail Address (Displayed to Contact you).

The suggestion was to format the email address so that Zen Cart could break it down. The first part of the text becomes a "name" it can be an email address if you want, but basically is some amount of text to identify a "person". The second part (separated from the first by a space, though not required) is the email address captured between less than and greater than symbols. So if you wanted to say the name was "Store Owner" and the email address were admin @ mydomain . com (spaces added to prevent immediate indexing) then the entry in the field would be:

Store Owner < admin @ mydomain . com>

Again with the spaces removed from within <>

Now whether that constant is the correct one or not can be debated, but the description for both fields (E-mail Address (To Contact You) and E-Mail Address (Sent FROM)) neither describes completing the address as described in this post.

[swguy]

I think @vaslit's solution is closer to what should really be done. If the second parameter to zen_mail is STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS, the first parameter should be blank or STORE_NAME. I submitted a PR to 1.5.7 to this effect.

[delia]

by the time I got any answers, I was long past that particular client so was never able to put any of the suggestions above into play. If I could just remember which website it was......

[swguy]

Fix accepted into 1.5.7, easy backport for other 1.5.x versions.
https://github.com/zencart/zencart/pull/2655

[delia]

I uploaded the files (I downloaded 1.5.7 on the 30th) but the three fixed files did not stop the issue in admin - this is 1.5.6a.

[jodean]

Check the file admin\modules.php. Searched for STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS its on different lines on different versions. The first argument of the function zen_mail is STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS. As intended, the first argument should be the name of the recipient of the email not the email address. For some reason, when an email is sent to this function it fails. So I changed the STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS to the STORE_OWNER on all three instances mentioned above and it worked just fine.