Re: sms through teleflip and php?

Thanks for all the insights. It appears that it might have thought my email was spam as I sent it from another server and it worked fine. Thanks! On 1/16/07, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:

also consider that there maybe a reverse lookup being done on the sending MTA that the sms gateway doesn't consider kosher .. and/or that the IP of the sending MTA is grey-listed/black-listed. also a check may be being done to see if the sender's account exists on the sender's [your servers] domain. check the relevant logs on your server to see what (if anything) the sms gateway is asking your server. (no idea what/where those logs are hiding out). sorry if this all sounds vague, I'm mostly parroting what others have said in the past - I'm hardly what you would call knowledgable with regard to mail servers and all that jazz. tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote: Maybe phpMailer isn't sending the correct headers either. Sometimes all it takes is one missing header that a system is looking for and it may filter it as spam or something. Again, I encourage you to examine the headers from your Thunderbird "good" email and compare it to your PHP and/or phpMailer headers that are getting sent. Possibly try to emulate the successful email as much as possible by copying the headers from a known successful message. If that doesn't work, then you may contact teleflip or whatever service you're trying to send text messages to and ask them if they can provide any information as to why it may not be going through. Never know, might find someone with half a brain who can help. -TG = = = Original message = = = I tried using phpMailer and all and it nothing seems to work right. I can send it fine through thunderbird but it just seems to complain via php. Not sure why. On 1/16/07, tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com <tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote:

I'm guessing the SMS system is rejecting the email because it's lacking some headers that mail programs tend to use... and spammers sometimes forget. You might send your email from Thunderbird.. CC yourself on it. Verify that it went through as a text message, then open the CC'd copy and

look at

the headers. You can start by taking all those headers and putting

them

into your PHP script then slowly commenting some out until you get just

what

you need and not a lot of extra garbage (to keep it simple and semi-elegant). That's where I'd start at least. -TG = = = Original message = = = Has anyone been able to successfully send a text message using php and

the

mail function? It works fine if I open up thunderbird and send a message to mynumber@teleflip.com but if I use the mail function: mail("mynumber@teleflip.com", "test", "test"); It doesn't work. I've tried several different approaches so was

curious

if others have used it successfully. Thanks!

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