Re: Email being blocked

No, its definitely not that. I've set the sendmail_from and it's still not working. Also, the mail() function actually fails to return a success code for the non-sitedomain addresses, implying that the problem is at the source, not the destination. Can anyone help? Thanks Ben "Lowell Allen" <la@lowellallen.com> wrote in message news:BA5D9A9F.12ABB%la@lowellallen.com... > > From: "Ben" <wdesign@petromedia.co.uk> > > > [snip] > > > > I'm trying to send out emails from a script, using the mail() function. This > > works, but only for email addresses that are in the same domain as the > > website ! > > > > So, if the website domain that the script is running within is > > www.mysite.com, then > > > > test@mysite.com is fine > > test@someothersite.com will not go > > > > The script is running on a Cobalt RaQ, Linux machine, with sendmail. > > > > Accessing sendmail from perl CGI presents no such difficulties, so I assume > > its not a sendmail / firewall / OS problem. > > > > I have also tried talking to sendmail directly, from PHP, rather than using > > the mail() function, and have found that the same problem occurrs. > > > > Could it be something in PHP.INI ? > > > > The value of sendmail_from can affect the return path header and cause > receiving systems to block as spam. There's a user contributed note in the > manual: <http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php> > > -- > Lowell Allen >