[Solved]: Can't send any e-mail: Coppermine or PHPMailer sends wrong FROM-header

[Joennuh]

Hello people,

My English is poor (motherlanguage is Dutch), but I'll try to explain my problem in English as far as I can.

I discovered I can't send any e-mail from the Coppermine system. So activation e-mails, notification e-mails, e-cards, etc. can't be mailed.

When doing a research I discoverd Coppermine or the included and used PHPMailer is sending a wrong FROM. My Argosoft Mail Server for Windows says the FROM-header is as follows:

MAIL FROM:< username <something@realdomain.com>>

While I think it has to be something like:

MAIL FROM:<something@realdomain.com>

with a hidden extra FROM header.
Or it has to be:

MAIL FROM: "username" <something@realdomain>

(this last one could be also the hidden header in a correct case)

I use also PHPMailer within my own website projects and as far I can see I'm using exactly the same version of PHPMailer which Coppermine holds.

When I watched the logs of my Argosoft Mail server wend sending a mail from one of my own project websites I see:
[qoute]MAIL FROM:<something@realdomain.com>[/quote]
And when I have a look on my mailbox it is deliverd as:

"username" [something@realdomain.com

In the wrong case (the Coppermine case) the e-mail will be stopped at the relaying server of my ISP which i have to use, because the FROM mailadres which is send from my mailserver to the relaying server is modified to:

<username <somehting@realdomain.com>

So the many wrong placed < and > gives me many problems to send correct e-mails.

I couldn't find any rare cases withing the scripts ecard.php and /include/mailer.ionc.php.

Can anyone tewll me what I should do to resolve this problem (without re-installing Coppermine or somehting like that)?

[Joennuh]

Forgotten to include:
Coppermine version: 1.4.19
Server: Aapche (exact version unknown)
PHP: version 5.0.4
OS: Windows 2000 SP4 Dutch

[Joennuh]

I have found a solution on my own.

Apparently the problem is within PHPMailer. With some debugging I discovered that Coppermine is sending the sender-data correctly. I couldn't find which code in PHPMailer causes the problem but I am sure it has something to be with using the PHP Mail() connection from within PHPMailer.

By filling in the SMTP-server on the Coppermine administrator settings page Coppermine uses PHPMailer it's own SMTP-engine and that works very well.