Re: Mail() Problems in a heterogenous network

Sounds like they have relay disabled on their SMTP server and the IP that your PHP is running on is not on an included network address. As them to verify that your ip address is ok. The mail server will accept locally destined mail but anything else is seen as a relay attempt (Spam) and blocked. In most cases ISPs and admins reject with complaint (which would help considerably in your case), in others they reject transparently by routing to /dev/null. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Parker, John (Snorkel) wrote: > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:02:32 -0600 > From: "Parker, John (Snorkel)" <jparker@omniquip.textron.com> > To: "'php-general@lists.php.net'" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: [PHP] Mail() Problems in a heterogenous network > > Ok. Here's the situation: > > I'm running PHP on a Unix (SGI) box with Apache as a module running an > Intranet web server (call it inside.mydomain.com). Sendmail is running on > the machine. I'm on a network with a windows Mail server (MS. Exchange 5.5) > with (I'm told) appropriate SMTP services running (call it > mail.mydomain.com). > > I'm using a mail class I downloaded from somewhere, which basically calls > PHP's mail funciton. > > The behaviour is this: When I send mail from the webserver (running as > nobody@inside.mydomain.com) to an inside address (same domain, i.e. > jparker@mydomain.com) I get everything just fine. I can even use the from > feature in the mail class to make the mail appear to come from a real (or > not so real, I've tried god@heaven.org and it takes it just fine) address. > However, when I send mail to an outside address, i.e. somebody@yahoo.com, it > gets dropped somewhere. Unfortunately those running the mailserver are > unable/unwilling to help me track this down, so I've got to come to you guys > with limited information and hope you have an answer. If it helps, here's > the header of a message sent from inside.mydomain.com to an inside address. > Thanks in advance. > > Received: from sneasv02.omniquip.textron.com > (insidesnorkel.omniquip.textron.com [10.220.15.149]) by > oqamapw1ab.omniquip.textron.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail > Service Version 5.5.2650.21) > id 14MPSVVH; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:18:24 -0600 > Received: (from nobody@localhost) by sneasv02.omniquip.textron.com > (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA42386; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:13:51 > -0600 (CST) > Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:13:51 -0600 (CST) > Message-Id: <200102241713.LAA42386@sneasv02.omniquip.textron.com> > To: jparker@omniquip.textron.com > Subject: You\'ve been very good > From: god@heaven.org > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary = b0c7d5a8cfe35ac094237730d7b4e46d6 > ... > ... > .. > > John Parker > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- > John Parker, Senior Design Engineer > Ph: 816/676-6419 > Fax: 785/989-3556 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > Kelly 303-444-1671 Boulder, Colorado