If using the EmailComponent works in other parts of your controller, and the "code excerpt" you provided was just manually entered into your original email (the first two lines would have resulted in a syntax error as it is written) you can try adding
$this->Email->return = "Mysitename <boun...@mysite.com>"; before the call to $this->Email->send(). This will add the appropriate mail header to indicate what email address to send bounceback emails. I've had some domains (such as gmail.com) refuse emails from my webserver because its a shared host that was at one time flagged as a potential spam source. The bounceback emails are normally sent to the FROM address, but it looks like the FROM you are using is something like 'no-re...@mysite.com', which probably doesn't exist, so any delivery errors (remote mailserver down, remote user has exceeded his quota, unknown user, etc.) are being delivered into the ether. It may also be possible that the receiving email client is routing your email to a spam folder. In this case, there will be no bounceback email. You could display a message like "The email has been sent to <sam...@gmail.com>. Please make sure that <no-re...@mysite.com> is on your list of trusted senders to avoid the mail being sent to your Spam folder.". Of course, this will only work if the email is being sent as a direct result of the user interacting with your website. Note: The fact that $this->Email->send() returns true doesn't mean the email was delivered; usually, it will use the PHP mail() function, and according to the PHP manual (http://php.net/manual/en/ function.mail.php): Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise. It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for delivery, it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended destination BTW: Is there a reason you are wrapping the $this->Email->send() within ob_start()/ob_end_clean() ? Output buffering generally only deals with output that is being sent to the client browser, but $this- >Email->send() and $this->log() shouldn't be sending anything to the browser (unless you have Debug > 0, in which case you WANT to see the debug messages). -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
