ISSUE SUMMARY:
Upon user registration I'm receiving this message in a yellow box above my header after each registration page is completed by a user.

"Notice
Could not instantiate mail function."

Im assuming that this is because i do not have a cron job set up. I have followed the steps to set up a cron job using cronless but i simply cant understand where to find the file cron.php so i can point cronless in the right direction to begin working. in the tutorial video the person simply types in the url blah.45.blah?somehitng.cron.php as an example. but i have no clue where to start finding the file or do i need to create one?

Im also running on 1and1 hosting so do i need to do anything special with my host to allow a cron job or should this be something simple all in itself.

please help me figure this out


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RESULT
EXPECTED RESULT
BROWSER

In response to my own issue i did get the cron job running and am still receiving the same message when registering a new user.

what would be the case as to why im getting that message upon user registration?

Hi,

that message from joomla. because the mail setting is not valid with your server.
please changing that mail setting to SMTP instead on php mailer. goto joomla backend > system > global configuration > server, mail settings section

and please find SMTP settings detail at your email provider.

Regards