Re: Sending mail with php-

On 1/10/06, Sameer N Ingole <strike@proscrutiny.com> wrote: > Dear Dotan, > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >On my home Fedora Core 4 box I run Apache 2.0. Sometimes when sending > >mail with php no mail is delivered, and I find this in the logs: > > > ><<< 550-Verification failed for <apache@localhost.localdomain> > ><<< 550-unrouteable mail domain "localhost.localdomain" > ><<< 550 Sender verify failed > > > You are getting this error because apache@localhost.localdomain cannot > be reached from Internet and whoever you are sending mail to may have > something called sender check. This verifies if the sender of this mail > is reachable. This avoids spammers to send mails using unreachable > addresses. Also he may be checking spf-record for your From: domain on > mail envelop. > > > > >So I changed the only email address in httpd.conf to: > >ServerAdmin dotan@lyricslist.com > > > What error you are getting after you change address in apache and try > sending mail after restarting apache? > > > > >But I still get the error! I did restart apache and even went so far as to > >reboot the machine. If I cannot modify the parameter within apache, > >then where should I modify it? Within php? Within sendmail? > > > Excact same error. Actually, this was working fine until recently. I use the script (homemade) to send out the http://lyricslist.com monthly newsletter every month- and only this month am I having problems. No changes made to apache, php, or sendmail except the regular updates. Could an update have broken this? Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/short_answer/what_is_hdtv.html 876