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mail() & sendmail

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 12:47 pm
by zacky
when I try to send a mail with the mail() function..
I get a error, in a mail to root..

Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 cannot route to sender address <nobody@jalla.jalla.com>

what's wrong?

Here some more from the mail:

<<< 550 cannot route to sender address <nobody@jalla.jalla.com>
550 5.1.1 zacky@blah.com... User unknown :cry:

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 12:25 am
by evilcoder
what code are you using to send it?

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 3:39 pm
by zacky
$mail = mail("zacky@blah.com", "subject", "jalla!");

8O

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 5:00 pm
by evilcoder
try this:

$email = "The email you want to send to";
$yemail = "Your email";
$body = "Hey

this is the message

and spaces will actually come out in the email";

mail("$email","Subject","$body","From:$yemail");

that will work.

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 4:46 pm
by zacky
no.. that din't work.. here's the error root get:


----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
zacky@blah.com
(reason: 550 rejected: cannot route to sender <nobody@jalla.jalla.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.blah.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 rejected: cannot route to sender <nobody@jalla.jalla.com>
554 5.0.0 zacky@blah.com... Service unavailable



jalla = server the script is sendt from.. (example name)
zacky@blah.com = example of email adress (yes, the email I use is working fine)
:cry:

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 5:53 pm
by evilcoder
Is your webserver windows or linux? Do you host yourself or by a company, if its by a company i'd be asking them, coz its definately a server issue.

Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2002 5:21 am
by zacky
no.. It's my linux box on my own line..
what's wrong?

Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2002 5:24 am
by evilcoder
I've tested that code over and over on BOTH my localhost server and on my paid hosting server and it works without a hitch.

Check your php.ini and server configs. Look for sendmail and mail functions especially.

I dont know much about server configs, so i'm not much of a help. sorry.

Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2002 5:34 am
by zacky
hmm.. ok..
I tried that script on my laptop, with qmail installed..
that worked.. but it din't work on the other linux box with net.

Do I have to have qmail(or something) installed if mail() should work ? :roll:

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2002 10:00 am
by zacky
ok.. I found the problem.. (it was a server prob.)
tnx anyway 8)


It's working now :D