# Contact form debugging as Radiant new user learning opportunity **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [December 8, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contact-form-debugging-as-radiant-new-user-learning-opportunity/200292 "2010-12-08T17:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contact-form-debugging-as-radiant-new-user-learning-opportunity/200292/1 "2010-12-08T17:00:07Z")
I am a new user to Radiant (coming from Drupal), and so far I’ve found Radiant to be a great application. I have also received excellent help from the community (here and on github), and this is also great. (Actually, a strong and helpful community is the most important thing of all.) I have almost finished rebuilding my website in Radiant, but I just need to get the contact form working properly. I have installed and setup the mailer extension and the contact form. The form seems to work, but does not redirect me to the thanks page. Also I do not receive the email (I’m working from localhost at the moment, on Ubuntu, so the fact that I do not get the email is not overly surprising. It could be caused by a number of things, though the mailq is empty). The log, however, says “Sent mail to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid,” so at least something is working. I am in the process now of debugging this, and I’ve started to look at various posts that discuss validation, changing environments.rb, and so on. Before I wade too deeply into this process, I thought I’d ask for a bit of help. I don’t want to do anything to break the whole system. So: 1. I’ve seen in various posts that I should add some email info to environments.rb. There is currently no reference to such things in that file. In the following two tutorials (let’s hope the url’s don’t get scrubbed here), different methods of adding email details are offered: [http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=404](http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=404) [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer) Which of these should I use, or should I do something else? For now, I have simply changed one line in environment.rb, as suggested by the mailer documentation. I changed this: config.frameworks -= [:action\_mailer] To this: config.frameworks -= [] So, I haven’t added mailing details (smtp, user, and so on) anywhere. Perhaps that’s the place to start. Suggestions most welcome. Ross ---
**Author:** ![rosslaird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@rosslaird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosslaird)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contact-form-debugging-as-radiant-new-user-learning-opportunity/200292/2 "2010-12-08T17:09:32Z")
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:55 AM, rosslaird [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > surprising. It could be caused by a number of things, though the mailq > get scrubbed here), different methods of adding email details are > > To this: > > config.frameworks -= > > So, I haven’t added mailing details (smtp, user, and so on) anywhere. > Perhaps that’s the place to start. Suggestions most welcome. does [Mailer Extension · radiant/radiant Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/radiant/radiant/wiki/mailer-extension) help at all? ---
**Author:** ![rosslaird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@rosslaird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosslaird)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contact-form-debugging-as-radiant-new-user-learning-opportunity/200292/3 "2010-12-08T18:14:46Z")
Yes, that’s the mailer extension that I am using. I installed it by (precisely) following the instructions on github and in the manual. ---
**Author:** ![rosslaird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@rosslaird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rosslaird)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contact-form-debugging-as-radiant-new-user-learning-opportunity/200292/4 "2010-12-09T00:01:58Z")
I migrated my localhost Radiant setup to Dreamhost (holy smokes was that very easy, compared to Drupal!), and the contact form is now working perfectly. It must have been a behind-the-scenes email delivery issue. Thanks for the help, though.