I did the tcpdump and I think the following should be the reason?
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500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: "AUTH LOGIN"..
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it tries to open the session with:
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250-<mydomain> Hello www@<mydomain> [x.x.x.x], pleased to meet
you..250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES..250-PIPELINING..250-8BITMIME..250-SIZE..250-DSN..250-ETRN..250-DELIVERBY..250HELP..
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>wrote:
> On 2013-09-02, Tony Berth <tonybe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > well the script does talk to google mail correctly so somehow it should
> > work.
>
> If the script is talking to google mail, it is going to be making
> SMTP connections directly itself. Given the log entry you showed, I would
> probably try sniffing the TCP connection (maybe something like
> "tcpdump -A -s 1500 -i lo0 port 25" will do).
>
> > I think all these open source php based solutions use the same way to
>
> > send e-mails.
>
> No, they don't.
>
> Sending mail from PHP is a right mess, there is the mail() function
> but it's rather limited (on unix, it just pipes to a program and can't
> do smtp-auth), also some server hosts disable it, so in practice most
> larger PHP apps have another way of sending mail where they either
> execute sendmail, or handle the socket connections themselves, or use a
> library (phpmailer etc).
> @owner ${DRUPAL_OWNER}
