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Posted by Jasen Betts on 02/10/06 23:32
On 2006-02-03, Seth Darr <seth@sethmo.com> wrote:
> I have a small-scale mailing list system that loops through a mySql
> table and calls the mail() function. Up until recently, it's been
> working just fine like this:
>
> $fromEmail = "admin@otherdomain.com";
> [loop for each row]
> mail($row['email'],$subject,$msg,"From: $fromEmail");
>
> But now, this only works if the From: email comes from the same domain
> as the webhosting server. So let's say my domain name is "domain.com".
> The only emails that will send out are "whatever@domain.com".
> Anything else loops through, but no error messages are flagged.
possibly somone further up the line from them decided the from addresses
were forged, or someone on the server was sending spam...
> This
> just started about a week ago. I called my webhosting company twice and
> each time basically got told that nothing changed on their end that they
> know of and that I'd have to find a workaround.
unless you can find another serve that's willing to relay the emails for you
there's probably nothing you can do other than change providers.
> I think that's BS, and
> that there's been some sort of change in configuration, but anyhow I'm
> in a crunch of sort and I'm trying to find a workaround. Mostly I've
> been trying to tinker with the headers on the outgoing emails. I
> haven't even started tinkering with the "parameters" parameter, as I
> know very little about sendmail. Here's where I'm at right now, though
> it doesn't work:
>
> $fromEmail = "admin@otherdomain.com";
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
> $headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
> $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
> $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion()."\n";
> $headers .= "From: \"The Admin\" <".$fromEmail.">\n";
> $headers .= "Reply-To: $fromEmail\n";
> $headers .= "Return-Path: $fromEmail\n";
should probably have "Precedence: bulk" in there too.
> Does this sound like a problem anyone else has had? Any tips?
> Workarounds? I am grasping at straws with this one, and I'd appreciate
> any help I can get out there.
change proviffder or get the PHP to emit something that can be saved at taken to otherdomain.com
and posted/run there.
>
> -Seth
> seth_darr@hotmail.com
--
Bye.
Jasen
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