RE: [PHP] Email being blocked

The box does have a default route to get out of your network I trust?? Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO) Web Application Consulting e-mail: tim@hitcho.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben [mailto:wdesign@petromedia.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2003 9:45 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php