RE: [PHP] Unable to send mail from PHP to AT&T e-mail address

> Phpster wrote: >> >> >> On Apr 21, 2009, at 20:32, Edward Diener <eldml@tropicsoft.com> wrote: >> >>> I have a PHP script which uses the PHP 'mail' function. When the >>> script's 'to' address is an AT&T address, such as my own as an >>> AT&T >>> ISP customer, the mail never gets to me. If the 'to' address is >>> anything other than an AT&T address, the mail gets to the recipient. >>> The PHP code for sending the mail is essentially: >>> >>> $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; >>> $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; >>> $headers .= 'From: Some From Name <somefromname.com>'; >>> $to = 'mybellsouthaddress.net'; >>> $subject = 'Some Subject'; >>> $msg = 'Some Message'; >>> if(mail($to,$subject,$msg."\r\n\r\n",$headers)) >>> echo "good"; >>> else >>> echo "bad"; >>> >>> In the actual PHP script the $to, $subject, and $msg are >>> successfully passed to the script from the client side as $_POST, >>> $_POST and $_FILES parameters respectively. I have just filled them >>> in above so that they can be seen as if they were part of the >>> script. The script always returns "good", so the mail function must be successful. >>> >>> In my project, testing has reported that any attempt to use the >>> 'mail' function on the server to send to an AT&T address fails to >>> reach the recipient, while all other addresses used in the testing >>> succeed in reaching the recipient. I can assert this to be the case >>> with my own AT&T address also. I have also checked my AT&T mailbox >>> online to make sure the mail is not being received as Spam. >>> >>> Does anybody have an idea why using the 'mail' function succeeds >>> with all but AT&T $to addresses ? Naturally in the client-server >>> application on which I am working, sending mail from the server must >>> work for all $to addresses. >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, >>> visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >> >> It might be that the server IP has been blacklisted with at&t as a >> domain from which spam is sent. > > I have found out that the server adds a from header of > 'nobody@myserver.com' where 'myserver' is the name of the server. This > header gets placed first before the From header I supply in my PHP > script ( which should have had the form in the example above of > 'somefromname@myserver.com, my bad ). > > Perhaps the AT&T mail server, when it sees the 'nobody@myserver.com' > treats it as spam and does not deliver the mail to even the > recipient's spam mailbox. > > I am not sure if it is normal for outgoing SMTP mail servers to > automatically add the 'nobody@myserver.com' from address first in the > header, or even why it does so ? Does anybody know if this is normal > for mail servers to do this ? Evidently other incoming mail servers do > not react to the 'nobody@myserver.com' in any way, so maybe AT&T is > unique in this. > > Any light anyone can throw on the 'nobody@myserver.com' address would > be most welcome. >It is using the apache user @ your host name as the default. Try this: >ini_set('sendmail_from', 'whatever@wherever.com'); You can also add headers to display custom formatted From: with a nice display name, like this: $to = "joe@user.com"; $subject = "Automated Notification"; $body = "Joe, you're using too much disk space!"; $headers = "From: Automated Disk Notifications <no-reply@website.com>\n\rReply-to: no-reply@website.com\n\r"; mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers); EDIT: Oops, didn't read OP. Sorry!