Could not instantiate mail function error in Joomla Sites

Thanks, I hope this works; I have yet to check the status.

I get this message when I try to log in to Joomla. Because of this I thought perhaps I forgot my username or password, and chose the option to have it mailed to me.

It gives me two messages as follows:

Could not instantiate mail function.
Your username has been e-mailed to a-pearce@sbcglobal.net.

guess I posted in the wrong spot, no replies.

I am having this problem on my site and no matter what I try I cannot resolve. My webhost finally had to resolve. They had done something on their servers and it screwed up my account.

Thanks for the help

hi I am running my small business of seo services. recently i jump to the joomla. i use contact us form for my client and em getting the above error.. but the problem is now solve thanks for this help.

Regards
Mark

This doesn't work for me, my email is hosted by google apps and site on another webhost, is there any way!!!

I Tryed both SMTP, Sendmail & PHP Mail function but still not working i am using localhost

HI have tried SENDMAIL & i am getting PHPMAILER_EXECUTE/usr/sbin/sendmail..
I am working on localhost, as we know that the mail finction could not work on local computers.
Is this message is normal???

not good sulotion
many peoples are using localhost can he contact web hoster

ha ha ha

http://www.google.com

My friend faced this problem that Mail function could not be initiated message is coming and Message is not sending. when he was working with the contact us

Working on this problem we got that controller.php file and and contact.php file which are placed at subdirectories of com_contact have some problems. But we had a completely working joomla site in other folder of the same server so we replaced :
controller.php , contact.php by the corresponding files from the working joomla site.

now the error message is gone and mails are send and received happily.

also The SMTP settings should be configured care fully.We put the SMTP host name ,the port, and selected NO for SMTP, we did choose php mailer . SMTP host name and SMTP username and password left blank.

As I am not that familiar with joomla and i am working with drupal &h e is working with .net Still now we don't know whether is solution will work for all.

Wow, absolutely nothing more that i have to add here. Just want to say it is a great post

This is very useful article for many users. Thanks for putting across these details in this article.

Thanks for the suggestion.
My problem is resolved regarding the mail sending.
ThanX Again

Salil
Encoders

Thanks for your tips.But i am using localhost as wamp.And i show same problem.What can i do now.....

Perfect! to the point solution. Got it work in one try.
Thanks,
Komal