Simple Contact Form Error: Zend Mail Transport Exception

Hi there,

I am running into an error when trying to submit a contact form using the Simple Contact Form plugin. The error says: "Zend_Mail_Transport_Exception, Unable to send mail."

#0 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Mail/Transport/Abstract.php(348): Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail->_sendMail()
#1 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Mail.php(1194): Zend_Mail_Transport_Abstract->send(Object(Zend_Mail))
#2 /var/www/plugins/SimpleContactForm/controllers/IndexController.php(85): Zend_Mail->send()
#3 /var/www/plugins/SimpleContactForm/controllers/IndexController.php(26): SimpleContactForm_IndexController->sendEmailNotification('aherrington@azs...', 'Anne', 'test')
#4 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Controller/Action.php(516): SimpleContactForm_IndexController->indexAction()
#5 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(308): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('indexAction')
#6 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
#7 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php(101): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
#8 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
#9 /var/www/application/libraries/Omeka/Application.php(79): Zend_Application->run()
#10 /var/www/index.php(23): Omeka_Application->run()
#11 {main}

Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be causing the error and how to fix it?

Thank you!

My first guess is that either email is not set up on the server, or it uses something other than 'Sendmail'

You might check with your server admin or hosting company about email configurations, and make sure that they match with what's in application/config/config.ini in the Mail settings. Those default to Sendmail, but if something different is on the server, you'll probably need to make adjustments.

Thank you very much! The admin was unable to resolve the issue, so we disabled the plugin and are just using an email link instead.