Important: A notification mail that cannot be sent no longer fails the form 

Description 

A job submitted through the Jobs New content element is saved before the mail that announces it is sent. When the mail could not be sent, the error ended the request although the job was saved. The visitor got an error in place of the form instead of the confirmation, and reloading the page submitted the form again.

The mail cannot be sent when

  • the recipient or the sender address is empty or invalid. The defaults of the constants plugin.tx_academicjobs.email.recipientEmail and plugin.tx_academicjobs.email.from are empty, so a site that never set them met the error after every submitted job,
  • the mail transport of the installation refuses the mail or cannot deliver it.

In both cases the job stays saved, and the visitor now gets the same redirect as after a sent mail. Where the site shows the messages of the form, the visitor sees the warning "Notification email could not be sent" instead of the success message. The warning existed before, but it almost never showed.

The failure is logged at level error with the uid of the job and the exception, by the logger of \FGTCLB\AcademicJobs\Controller\JobController . With the default log configuration of TYPO3 it lands in the log file of the installation, in var/log/ of a Composer based installation and in typo3temp/var/log/ of a classic one. See When the mail cannot be sent.

Impact 

  • A visitor who got an error before now gets the confirmation redirect, and nobody gets a mail about the job. Check the log after changing the mail configuration of a site.
  • Any other error while the mail is built or sent still ends the request, as before, because it points to a defect a log entry would hide.
  • With a spool, the mail is only queued. A transport that fails later, when the queue is sent, is not reported by this extension, and the visitor has already seen the success message.
  • Behaviour is identical on TYPO3 v12 and v13.

Affected Installations 

Every installation rendering the Jobs New plugin, in particular one whose mail addresses are not configured.