RE: [PHP] mail () will send to everyone except my own domain

Gareth- This sounds more like a sendmail issue to me. I've run into this a few times myself. What's happening is simple, sendmail has a file that it reads generally called "domains" this file tells sendmail what domains it should be handling mail for. When you submit your form the first thing sendmail is doing is checking that domains file, and if your domain is listed in that file sendmail will then handle the mail locally. So basically the server is sending mail to itself. You need to edit that domains file and remove the domain name in question. Once that's done sendmail will look outside the server for answers on what it needs to do with the mail delievery. I can't remember the exact path off the top of my head because we use EXIM here (and it has the same issue) I would try either /etc/sendmail or /etc/mail or you can always do a find or whereis for "domains" Hello all, Having a real problem. Have written a very simple php email script that I'm testing on our server. The script works fine if I set the 'to' field as any email address but our own - i.e. xyz@hotmail.com This works fine, however as soon as I set the script to email me at the domain to which the server resolves too it fails. I do not get a error message, it says that the mail has been sent. The server runs Apache 1.3 and Php 4.1.2 (I will update to 4.2.2 once I have resolved this). The error logs on the server give no indication of any problem. I cannot work this out at all - it simply will not email to the same address as the DNS resolves its own IP address too. Our mx records are held elsewhere. I'm at complete loss on this one - I've been checking php.ini, httpd.conf etc etc and cannot work out why this is happening. Php.ini is set too: sendmail_from me@localhost.com sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i smtp localhost do I need to set the smtp to point to the server that holds the mx records? any help/advice much appreciated, thanks, Gareth --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 24/07/2002 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php