Support: Out of Memory Error when sending email.

Hello,

I am new to this application and I am trying to get it set up for the first time. I have everything working accept the e-mail functionality. Whenever I try to email and invoice I get the following error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 32243712) (tried to allocate 837194 bytes) in ....../simpleinvoices/library/mail/class.phpmailer.php on line 1126

This is the actual line:
/* chunk_split is found in PHP >= 3.0.6 */
$encoded = chunk_split(base64_encode($str), 76, $this->LE);

I have created a PHP.ini file to overwrite the default values of my Host. I have no problems creating PDF files. I have put a copy of the PHP.ini file in both the root simpleinvoices/ folder as well as the /simpleinvoices/library/mail/ where the php file in question is located.

Could this error be caused by invalid smtp settings in the config file? Since I have never been able to send an email I can't verify that these settings are correct.
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Thanks for your reply Justin
I am trying to use the gmail smtp server. Here are the settins that I am using, got the details from the gmail website:

email.host = smtp.gmail.com
email.smtp_auth = true
email.username = my_address@gmail.com
email.password = gmail_password
email.smtpport = 587
email.secure = ssl
email.ack = false


Has anyone used gmail successfully with this application? As for my host, they do allow email, and they also have an smtp server. As of right now I don't have any mailboxes set up with them though, they are just forwards to my gmail.

Hello Justin,

I have tried to use my hosts mail server and still no luck, the issue seems to be with the mail class running out of memory, I put bad data into the config file to see what error I would get, and it was totally different. So I am guessing that the settings are correct.

I then got a newer version of phpmailer but still getting the exact same error, but now its on a different line number as the code has changed and that line has moved. I am all out of ideas at this point. I notices a Zend folder in the library folder. Can I configure the application to use Zend instead of phpmailer?

Thanks.

@rkolech
re zend
- you can try - you have to redo all the Simple Invoices email code - refer post below
-- if your interested in doing this - would be a great help to Simple Invoices

@starscream
- might be quicker to swap phpmailer for zend_email
-- just need to redo the email code in http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/source/browse/trunk/modules/invoices/email.php

cheers

justinSmarterInvoices.com Simple Invoices hosting | SixHQ.com Simple Invoices custom development | Me

I've finished the implementation. Anyone who wants to test it before I commit it? Gmail seems to work for me now. I only couldn't implement ACK, what's it used for? Also there seems to be a problem when I catch exceptions, so the error handling is a bit nasty.

Regards Starscream

thanks !!!

note: http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/source/browse/trunk/modules/invoices/email.php?spec=svn2672&r=2672#13
- shouldn't need that error_reporting as is defined in config.ini

cheers

justinSmarterInvoices.com Simple Invoices hosting | SixHQ.com Simple Invoices custom development | Me

Committed the new version. Couldn't find ACK support in the documentation nor in the code..

PS: For Gmail set the 'email.secure' configuration to 'tls' instead of 'ssl'.