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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21481

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Hi Daniel - I am developing a custom Joomla component for a client, and would like to send transactional emails (subscriptions to event updates, etc.) with this custom component. With the CMandrill component installed and the plug-in enabled, the component will not send emails. That could be due to the email configuration (SMTP) used for Mandrill.

I contacted the folks at mandrill.com, and they suggested I seek your help. I created a template in the CMandrill component, and linked it to the component, yet no emails send. If I create a from in RSForm!Pro, it will send an email through the Mandrill API.

Any ideas on how I can enable my component to send these emails successfully?
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21482

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If the plugin is enabled we don't use the SMTP configuration, but the mandrill API.

Do you use:
$mail = JFactory::getMailer();
$mail->send(....);

or how do you exactly send your mails?

Also try to have the plugin ordered first in the plugin list (first for system tasks).

That is what pops up into my head right now.

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Daniel
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21487

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Daniel Dimitrov wrote: If the plugin is enabled we don't use the SMTP configuration, but the mandrill API.

Do you use:

$mail = JFactory::getMailer();
$mail->send(....);

or how do you exactly send your mails?

Also try to have the plugin ordered first in the plugin list (first for system tasks).

That is what pops up into my head right now.

Regards,
Daniel


Thank you for the prompt reply.
$mail = JFactory::getMailer();
$mail->send(....);

is how the emails are being sent, and the plug-in is ordered first.

Just for the heck of it, I disabled the Mandrill plug-in, and the emails being sent are still using Mandrill (confirmed via headers). The Mail Settings in Joomla are set to send using SMTP, and the Mandrill account info is in there.
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21488

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When do you send the mails? It's not in a CLI script or something like this or?
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21489

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Not using CLI script to send emails.
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21490

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The onafterrelease function of the plugin looks like this:
public function onAfterInitialise()
	{
		$params = JComponentHelper::getParams('com_cmandrill');
		$appl = JFactory::getApplication();
 
		$this->loadLanguage('plg_system_mandrill.sys');
 
		$key = $params->get('apiKey');
 
		if (strlen($key)) {
 
			$path = JPATH_ROOT . '/plugins/system/mandrill/mailer/mail.php';
 
			JLoader::register('JMail', $path);
			JLoader::load('JMail');
 
		} else {
			$appl->enqueueMessage(JText::sprintf('PLG_SYSTEM_MANDRILL_NO_API_KEY_SPECIFIED', JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_cmandrill')), 'warning');
			return false;
		}
	}

So if you have provided an api key in the component, then the plugin will override the JMail class. make a die in the if statement and see if it goes that far?
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21491

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Also check the joomla logs. If for some reason we were unable to send the mail through the mandril api, we send it using the standard joomla config.

Have a look in the logs folder for a file related to mandrill and check it out.
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21492

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Even if the plug-in is disabled?

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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21493

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Well, there you have it man! The plugin should be enabled!
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21496

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lol

What I am asking is do you want me to try adding the 'die' test even though I have the plug-in disabled? It is only sending emails through Mandrill if the plug-in is disabled. If I enable the plug-in, it stops sending emails from my component.
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Using with a Custom Component 11 years 5 months ago #21508

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Ah ok.
If a plugin is turned off, then the plugin doesn't get called by joomla. So if you leave it turn off and you do any die there you won't ever achieve anything.

The plugin needs to be on.
Also when do you send the mails. the plugin is executed onAFterInitialise -> if you send your mails before that, then it won't be able to do anything.
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