Re: php mail() function

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:11:25PM -0700, James Prentice wrote: > I found the mail server for my ISP (shawmail.vc.shawcable.net) and > edited main.cf in the following manner: > > myhostname = shawcable.net > relayhost = [shawmail.vc.shawcable.net] > > I still don't receive the mail from the PHP script though. The error > log from /var/log/mail.log is this: > > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/pickup[7044]: 6CA44A70109: uid=33 > from=<www-data> > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 6CA44A70109: > message-id=<20091024040031.6CA44A70109@shawcable.net> > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109: > from=<www-data@shawcable.net>, size=527, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 6CA44A70109: > to=<xxx@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01, > dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net]) > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/cleanup[7107]: 75517A7010A: > message-id=<20091024040031.75517A7010A@shawcable.net> > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/bounce[7110]: 6CA44A70109: sender > non-delivery notification: 75517A7010A > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: from=<>, > size=2219, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 6CA44A70109: removed > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/error[7109]: 75517A7010A: > to=<www-data@shawcable.net>, relay=none, delay=0.03, > delays=0.02/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced > ([shawmail.vc.shawcable.net]) > Oct 23 21:00:31 homemade postfix/qmgr[7045]: 75517A7010A: removed > > Have I edited main.cf incorrectly, or are there other values that need > to be edited? 1. Not sure why you have square brackets around the relayhost value. 2. You're getting a bounce from the ISP's mail server, one indicating it still won't allow relay. 3. I suspect the relayhost name is wrong. This may be the name you find in the mail headers on messages relayed to you, but I doubt it's the one you should use to post to. I could be wrong, though. 4. All due respect to Kranthi, but I believe he's wrong about relaying mail from your webserver to the ISP's mailserver. I believe the ISP's mailserver doesn't care, as long as the mail comes from your "pipe". You could probably call yourself "pizza@pepperoni.com" and your ISP would accept it. It's just the From:. Again, I could be wrong. 5. This would be a lot simpler if you just call Shaw and ask them for the name of the mailserver, and ask them if it's a problem for you to post mail from your internal webserver to their mailserver. Then ask them why such posts might bounce with a 5XX error. Paul Paul -- Paul M. Foster