Thanks for the reply.
The problem was actually caused by depreciated function in Cake
1.2.8284 / PHP 5.3. E.g.:
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is
deprecated in .../cake/libs/model/connection_manager.php on line 106
Fixed by upgrading to the lastest 1.2.x version of C
Without a bit more detail, I would guess that the new PHP 5.3 does not
have mail setup by default and from a hosting service this usually
requires a request before they will enable it.
You can check that if you have ssh access to the server console by
inspecting the php.ini
Look for the setting for
I have a site (originally built back in 2009) with a couple of cron
jobs for order notification emails. The site is running CakePHP
version 1.2.4.8284
After the hosting server was upgraded to PHP 5.3, the cron jobs appear
to have stopped working (they still run, but no email is sent). The
website
