Mail, SMTP, ini_set - Sendmail stopped working

[CliveC]

<?
$to =&quot;them@theirsite.com&quot;;
$subject=&quot;A Subject&quot;;
$msg =&quot;A Message&quot;;
$from =&quot;me@mysite.com&quot;;
ini_set (&quot;SMTP&quot;, &quot;mail.mysite.com&quot;
mail(&quot;$to&quot;,&quot;$subject&quot;,&quot;$msg&quot;,&quot;From: $from&quot;
?>

My ISP (uplinkearth) recently made some changes which required me to change PHP code to add the ini-set line shown above.

Prior to this change the code worked regardless of whether the &quot;to&quot; or &quot;from&quot; was from an email @mysite.com.

Since the change it works if the mail is &quot;to&quot; an address at @mysite.com but does not work if the &quot;from&quot; is an address at @mysite.com and the &quot;to&quot; is not.

sendmail_from is set to me@loacalhost.com in the php ini file.

Any ideas?

Clive

http://tubularity.com

 

[sleipnir214]

Have you presented your problems with the new configuation to your ISP?

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[CliveC]

sleipnir214, thanks for your reply.

Yes I have but they no longer provide technical support for the plan which I am on even though PHP was supported on my plan level at the time I signed up.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

 

[sleipnir214]

Are you being hosted on a Win32 machine? The SMTP PHP setting is only for Win32.

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[CliveC]

Yes.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

 

[CliveC]

At the time of the change they sent this notice:

> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:40 PM
> Subject: MAINTENANCE NOTICE - PLANNED PHP CHANGES
>
> MAINTENANCE NOTICE - PLANNED PHP CHANGES
>
> Maintenance Schedule planned for Friday October 3, 2003.
>
> Effective this date, all PHP mail scripts will be required to
> specify an address for the SMTP relay server. To do this add
> the following line to your script prior to calling the &quot;mail&quot;
> function:
>
> ini_set (&quot;SMTP&quot;, &quot;mail.your_domain_name&quot;
>
> Replace the value &quot;your_domain_name&quot; with your actual domain
> name. Also note that standard mail rules apply; that is, the
> sender or recipient address must be an address at your domain
> or the message will not be sent.
>
> These updates may require you to review and update your scripts
> to be in compliance with the change.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

 

[sleipnir214]

You didn't answer the question. Is your ISP's PHP installation running on Win32? If not, that setting is ignored.

The PHP online manual states explicitly at

http://php.he.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php:

[/i]SMTP: Used under Windows only: DNS name or IP address of the SMTP server PHP should use for mail sent with the mail() function.[/u]

To find out the OS on which you're running, run a script like:

<?php print PHP_OS; ?>

Which will tell you the OS. If it's a unix-like OS, your ISP has no idea what they're talking about.



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[CliveC]

Yes it is running on win32

Clive

http://tubularity.com

 

[CliveC]

Problem solved by adding this line:
ini_set (&quot;sendmail_from&quot;, &quot;my-email-id@mysite.com&quot;

Thanks anyway.

Clive

http://tubularity.com