| Re: Trouble with sending e-mail from simple php script [message #176501 is a reply to message #176485] |
Sun, 08 January 2012 18:51   |
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On Jan 8, 4:34 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> M. Strobel wrote:
>> Am 08.01.2012 10:20, schrieb C:
>>> Even if the message were rejected, I would still see something in that
>>> frame, but I get only a blank frame. Client machine rejecting the
>>> message should not even be noticed by this PHP script, or would it?
>
>> You have to learn how to find and read the log files. Your script
>> will not show errors if it dies.
>
>> On Linux log files are only readable by root.
>
>> /Str.
>
> Probably the most common error when using mail() from within php on a
> shared host is to fail to use the -f function to pass a valid sender
> address to sendmail (or its analogue). Without that, the 'true' sender
> is likely to be 'your-login-n...@hosting-omain.com' which will fail most
> rudimentary validation and simply reject the mail.
>
> I ALWAYS use the -f to set the sender to something like
> 'webmas...@myvirtualdomson.com' and set up that virtual domain so that
> webmaster is a valid known target for emails.
>
> e.g.
>
> mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, "-f webmas...@mydomain.com");
>
> is far more likely to get through anti-relay security in the hosts
> mailer system.
>
> Start by testing the host mailer with the above line, so
>
> mail("m...@validmail.com","test message", "From:
> anot...@validmail.com\r\n", -f "webmas...@mydomain.com");
>
> is where you should start.
I did that and got an error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
>
> If that fails to make it then you need to talk to the hosting company.
I wrote the following test.php, uploaded it and tried it.
<?php
mail("aaaa....@gmail.com","test message", "From:
postmaster(at)example(dot)org\r\n", -f "postmaster(at)example(dot)org");
?>
My earlier code works well on two other sites of mine which are
sitting on other shared servers.
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