TOPIC: [SOLVED] Receiving a Spattering of Empty Emails

Hello,

Out of the blue, we received a several emails spaced closely in time and then 20, 40 minutes out and then they stopped.

The emails are blank and look like this:

has registered for the .



Registration Details are as follows:

Registrant\'s Name:
Email:

Registration Fee: 20.00
Payment Type: PayPal

We have been processing registrations and the associated paypal payments just fine otherwise. It is of some concern that the system is sending out these blank-type mails to our registration administrator email address.

Any ideas on why this might be happening?

Regards,

Rob

To clarify, the site specs are:

Joomla 1.5.8
Apache server
PHP4 (4.3.11)
MYSQL5
Godaddy shared hosting
DTRegister 2.3.7
sh404sef
Joomlapack

The emails are being sent from the system through PHP mail to the administrator email entered in the global configuration of Joomla.

I posted the same problem last night .. Still waiting for a response ...

Found the problem to this issue...

First, as the settings page in DT Register says, you must have IPN enabled in your paypal account.

Assuming your IPN is enabled in PayPal, then the problem is most likely that your database prefix is not jos_. You can fix this in this file:

/components/com_dtregister/dtregister.php

There are two places that in the last release one of our developers put \"jos_\" in the code for referencing the new PayPal IPN database tables. This was an obvious oversight and it is the source of this problem. One place to modify:

Around line 1477:

$sql = \"INSERT INTO jos_dtregister_paypal_session (`session_id` ,`data`)VALUES ( \'\".session_id().\"\',\'\".mysql_real_escape_string(serialize($_SESSION)).\"\')\" ;

Change the \"jos_\" to \"#__\" (leaving out the quotes of course)

This will fix you up. If you need further assistance with this, submit a support ticket.

Unfortunately we have IPN enabled and jos_ is our database prefix. I can try changing it anyway but that seems unlikely to work.