| Re: Trouble with sending e-mail from simple php script [message #176554 is a reply to message #176550] |
Mon, 09 January 2012 14:35   |
The Natural Philosoph
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C wrote:
> On Jan 9, 12:02 am, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>> C wrote:
>>> 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
>> Then you typed it wrong
>>
>>>> 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:
>>> postmas...@example.org\r\n", -f "postmas...@example.org");
>>
>>> ?>
>>
>> did it work or not...?
>>
>
> No, it did not send me any mail (at least I did not receive any), and
> resulted in a blank page (but perhaps that is expected since there are
> no html or echo statements).
>
Indeed. Well in that case the mail interface at least is an issue: And
it looks like you have others.
Time for full error logging to see what's what.
>>
>>> My earlier code works well on two other sites of mine which are
>>> sitting on other shared servers.
>> So the problem is in the setting of this shared servers mail, which is
>> what I said..unless you have some other versions of php running.- Hide quoted text -
>
> Should I try to circumvent the problem in some way? Can one write the
> same thing in Javascript?
>
>> - Show quoted text -
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