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Problems sending email using php to some recipients.

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:18 am
by amdorsey
I am having problems sending email to some recipients. It seems like anyone on an exchange server (not sure though) It will deliver fine to about 60% of my customers. Others they just won't recieve anything at all.

Has anyone heard of any problems with PHP sending mail before?
I am desperate at this point to figure this out.

I have tried so many different scripts...
I settled on http://dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail it is a php mail script based on the most popular formmail script from Matt's Script Archive. It seems to be the best with the most functions and less time to set up.

ONE OF YOU GENIOUSES PLEASE HELP. Thanks :)

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:15 am
by Chris Corbyn
Based on coding knowledge of PHP mailing using the mail() function emails are generally just sent using the SMTP protocol so it is most likely that there some messages simply being rejected by the SMTP server of your web host.

If you are running these aps on localhost then have you tried emailing the same recipients from any other mail program such as MS Outlook just to check if it is an SMTP issue or a coding issue?

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:38 am
by amdorsey
Yes. I can email all of these customers fine via Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:00 am
by magicrobotmonkey
MAybe you should try cc:ing yourself for a while to make sure that what you think is getting sent is actually getting sent. Get a hotmail account or something.

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:25 am
by amdorsey
done that. I always get the emails fine to my Pop3, hotmail, and comcast addresses. :(

Oh Well. Somewhere in the worls someone is having the smae problem as me. I must keep looking. Its driving me insane...

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:03 pm
by Buddha443556
Have you checked that your IP (perferably the one associate with your mail) isn't on a spam blocklist. Like at ...

http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso
http://www.mail-abuse.com/lookup.html
http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml

Usually you would know this right away by the bounce email unless their being /dev/nul 'ed for some reason.

Just a thought ...

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:35 pm
by feyd
This is a PHP problem. The General Board is not for PHP problems.


Moved to PHP - Code.