Re: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending
/var/log/maillog file shold have some clues. Cesar Aracena wrote: Before trying to guess what Saddam can and can't do with computers, try sending e-mails to different addresses (different domains... NOT just different usernames). Sometimes, the e-mail server you use is NOT configured properly, so every e-mail does not gets to you. It happened to me too when testing my server's sendmail. The e-mails reached well one of my addresses but not another one. So I pointed the e-mails to a Hotmail account and it reached it. Try it and see what happens. For some e-mail servers, you have to write lots of extra headers in the e-mails in order to pass their guard. HTH Cesar Aracena www.icaam.com.ar -Mensaje original- De: Ben C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Lunes, 18 de Agosto de 2003 06:28 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending I have recently had php installed on my server with sendmail. The server is behind a firewall and SMTP is open on the firewall. However, when I execute the mail(), it appears to have sent the mail, but I never receive it. I am not getting any error messages. Has anyone ever run into this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Raditha Dissanayake - http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with Graphical User Inteface. just 150 Kilo Bytes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending
Cesar Aracena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] For some e-mail servers, you have to write lots of extra headers in the e-mails in order to pass their guard. [/snip] True! But actually, I' ve seen people using only the 'From:' header to send mail. Emails can then be dropped easily by servers thinking it is spam. Ben, I don't know what headers you send, but you could try these headers: $headers = MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n; $headers .= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n; $headers .= X-Priority: 3\r\n; $headers .= X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\r\n; $headers .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $headers .= From: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; $headers .= Reply-to: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; $headers .= Return-path: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; $headers .= Error-to: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; mail(Yourname [EMAIL PROTECTED], Subject, $body, $headers); HTH, Ivo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending
* Thus wrote Ivo Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Cesar Aracena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] For some e-mail servers, you have to write lots of extra headers in the e-mails in order to pass their guard. [/snip] True! But actually, I' ve seen people using only the 'From:' header to send mail. Emails can then be dropped easily by servers thinking it is spam. No email server should drop mail. Ben, I don't know what headers you send, but you could try these headers: $headers .= Return-path: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; Sending this header is virtually a waste of time and effort, it will be ignored and set by the receiving smtp server, and on the very fist line. $headers .= Error-to: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; This wont guarantee errors to return to that email address. Curt -- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending
Curt Zirzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Thus wrote Ivo Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): True! But actually, I' ve seen people using only the 'From:' header to send mail. Emails can then be dropped easily by servers thinking it is spam. No email server should drop mail. Yet they seem to do...? Maybe dropped is not the right word? Clients may not receive emails which lack certain headers, as these emails are regarded spam by certain ISP's. Some people never even get 'normal' Outlook emails which are BCC'ed to them. The cause? Beats me... Somewhere, something, blocks/drops/deletes these emails... Ben, I don't know what headers you send, but you could try these headers: $headers .= Return-path: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; Sending this header is virtually a waste of time and effort, it will be ignored and set by the receiving smtp server, and on the very fist line. Hmmm... I ofcourse noticed that if I don't use -f in the 5th mail argument, return-path is something trashy like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, then I delete that from my list... $headers .= Error-to: Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]\r\n; This wont guarantee errors to return to that email address. No sh*t, I _never_ get bounced emails back although I set the reply-to and error-to headers. Someone told me some SMTP's use this header so I took my chances. -- Ivo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending
My ideas: (in order of likelihood) Idea #1: Your computer hates you. Idea #2: Sendmail isn't running. Idea #3: Sendmail isn't setup correctly. Idea #4: You have been hacked by Saddam. -Michael :-) Ben C. wrote: I have recently had php installed on my server with sendmail. The server is behind a firewall and SMTP is open on the firewall. However, when I execute the mail(), it appears to have sent the mail, but I never receive it. I am not getting any error messages. Has anyone ever run into this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending
Before trying to guess what Saddam can and can't do with computers, try sending e-mails to different addresses (different domains... NOT just different usernames). Sometimes, the e-mail server you use is NOT configured properly, so every e-mail does not gets to you. It happened to me too when testing my server's sendmail. The e-mails reached well one of my addresses but not another one. So I pointed the e-mails to a Hotmail account and it reached it. Try it and see what happens. For some e-mail servers, you have to write lots of extra headers in the e-mails in order to pass their guard. HTH Cesar Aracena www.icaam.com.ar -Mensaje original- De: Ben C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Lunes, 18 de Agosto de 2003 06:28 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [PHP] Mail() Problem Sending I have recently had php installed on my server with sendmail. The server is behind a firewall and SMTP is open on the firewall. However, when I execute the mail(), it appears to have sent the mail, but I never receive it. I am not getting any error messages. Has anyone ever run into this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
