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Need fully qualified sender - Sende rejected

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:45 am
by El Vasco
Hi All,
I am struggling to get Mercury/32 (part of XAMPP package) working. After reading lots of tutorials and following them I am still facing one error that I cannot solve:

504.5.5.2 <postmaster@localhost>: Sender address rejected: need fully-quali

In my php.ini I have:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost

Any hint will be highly appreciated :-) !

Thanks
El Vasco

Re: Need fully qualified sender - Sende rejected

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:47 am
by dgreenhouse
Since you're running this on a local machine, you'll need to use a smtp relay to get your mail out.

Not sure how to do that in Mecury/XAMPP.

The email server on the other end won't talk to an email server that it either can't find a mx record for or doesn't have a valid sender address.

postmaster@localhost is not valid outside of your box.

Re: Need fully qualified sender - Sende rejected

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:22 am
by El Vasco
Thank You, dgreenhouse !
I am using smtp.aol.com as Relay. Sorry for the question but what is a mx record ?
Thanks !
El Vasco

Re: Need fully qualified sender - Sende rejected

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:27 pm
by dgreenhouse
El Vasco wrote:Thank You, dgreenhouse !
I am using smtp.aol.com as Relay. Sorry for the question but what is a mx record ?
Thanks !
El Vasco
mx record doesn't apply in this case, but you should insert a valid sender email address.

If you want to know about mx, mta, and other email related stuff... google it. There's lots of reading.

Re: Need fully qualified sender - Sende rejected

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:16 pm
by El Vasco
Thank You, dgreenhouse ! I will try what you said wih a valid sender email !