I wanted to rotate the origin IP addresses in an email script, it is used to send notifications to my customers.
My server comes with 5 ip addresses, so I created an array of IPs and while sending the IP address changed randomly, in this array I do not include the main server IP.
This was working fine until last december, I have not made any change nor update (I am not sure if there was any automatic)
Here is the script:
$iparray = array(
'163.xx.217.xx',
'164.xx.217.xx',
);
$ips = $iparray;
$keyip = array_rand($ips);
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "none";
$mail->Host = $ips[$keyip];
$mail->Port = 26;
$mail->AddAddress($recipient);
$mail->Username=$senderemail;
$mail->Password=$senderpass;
$mail->SetFrom($senderemail,$sendername);
$mail->AddReplyTo($senderemail,$sendername);
$mail->AddBCC('smtp#xxxxx.co');
$mail->Subject = 'the subject';
$mail->MsgHTML('the message);
Note that $mail->Host was an IP randomly selected from the array, when checking on the message received, I used to get this:
spf=pass (google.com: domain of test#xxxxxxx.co designates 163.xx.217.xx as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=test#xxxxxxx.co
However, since December, the SPF check is being made on the server main IP, instead of any of the selected IP in the array, which I do not want.
This was working properly but all of the sudden it changed, could it be Gmail servers? Could it be something to be configured in the server?
In order to send emails, I use Exim, installed on a Centos server, managed via WHM.
I am not trying to spoof any address, all IP addresses are mine, I just need to make sure they rotate on every email sent, and I could do it but now I am not sure what to change to make it work again.
Thanks for all your help
Binding to an IP happens when the socket is created. You can control this by setting the options that get passed to stream_context_create() in the PHPMailer's SMTP class:
$mail->SMTPOptions = [
'socket' => [
'bindto' => "$bound_ip:0",
],
];
Where $bound_ip is a literal IPv4/IPv6 address, the result of gethostbyname('your-domain.example'), etc. Using 0 for the port allows the system to select the port normally. See the bindto docs for more info.
A SPF check is not made through declaring "everything is fine" in the mail, but through DNS records. Have a look at a SPF checker like https://mxtoolbox.com/spf.aspx to see whether all five of your IP adresses are listed in the SPF record for your outgoing domain.
This is more of a networking question rather than PHP. A remote host like Gmail will only see the outgoing public IP from your mail server. If you connect to one of the original random IPs but the outgoing traffic is being routed so that the traffic is originating from the server's main IP, then that's all that Gmail is going to see. You need to look into your networking configuration to see if there have been any recent changes in that regard.
EDIT: I'll add that my answer -is- somewhat vague, but that's because we don't know what your networking setup is like. You should probably ask this question over at ServerFault:
https://serverfault.com/
the solution was not directly in te PhpMailer, but as I am usin Exim as MTA, the answer is to set exim to read the IP from etc/mailips, and you can even map individual domains to any of your server IP address
I'm trying to send an email when a form is submitted. I'm using PHPMailer to send the mail using the below configuration.
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'mail.example.in';
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'user#example.in';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->setFrom("user#example.in" , "User");
$mail->addAddress('receiver#example.in', 'Receiver');
$mail->addBCC('anotheruser#somedomain.com', 'Another user');
$mail->AddReplyTo('user#example.in', 'User');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
if($mail->send())
echo "Your request has been received. We will soon contact you.";
else echo "Unable to send your request. Please try again";
This works fine in localhost. But, when I deploy it to my server (example.in) I get the below exception.
SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)
SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
--EDIT--
I tried connecting to the SMTP server using telnet command, but I'm unable to add the recipient. I get the below error?
Last login: Fri Sep 16 11:08:06 on ttys000
admin:~ admin$ telnet mail.example.in 25
Trying 111.91.153.112...
Connected to mail.example.in.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 fbs-ho-mailserver.example.in ESMTP Service (Lotus Domino Release 8.5.3FP3) ready at Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:36:01 +0530
HELO example.in
250 fbs-ho-mailserver.example.in Hello example.in ([111.91.127.222]), pleased to meet you
MAIL from: marketing#example.in
250 marketing#example.in... Sender OK
RCPT to: john.hh#gmail.com
554 Relay rejected for policy reasons.
-- EDIT --
I was able to setup this account in outlook. I'm really confused what's happening.
Your error says:
SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)
SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
So let's look at https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting :
"SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."
This may also appear as SMTP connect() failed or Called Mail() without
being connected in debug output. This is often reported as a PHPMailer
problem, but it's almost always down to local DNS failure, firewall
blocking (for example as GoDaddy does) or other issue on your local
network. It means that PHPMailer is unable to contact the SMTP server
you have specified in the Host property, but doesn't say exactly why.
It can also be caused by not having the openssl extension loaded (See
encryption notes below).
Some techniques to diagnose the source of this error are discussed
below.
GoDaddy
Popular US hosting provider GoDaddy imposes very strict (to the point
of becoming almost useless) constraints on sending email. They block
outbound SMTP to ports 25, 465 and 587 to all servers except their
own. This problem is the subject of many frustrating questions on
Stack Overflow. If you find your script works on your local machine,
but not when you upload it to GoDaddy, this will be what's happening
to you. The solution is extremely poorly documented by GoDaddy: you
must send through their servers, and also disable all security
features, username and password (great, huh?!), giving you this config
for PHPMailer:
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'relay-hosting.secureserver.net';
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->SMTPAuth = false;
$mail->SMTPSecure = false;
GoDaddy also refuses to send with a From address belonging to any aol,
gmail, yahoo, hotmail, live, aim, or msn domain (see their docs). This
is because all those domains deploy SPF and DKIM anti-forgery
measures, and faking your from address is forgery.
You may find it easier to switch to a more enlightened hosting
provider.
The problem - rather the two unrelated problems - that you're experiencing are quite straightforward:
SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)
SMTP connect() failed.
and you have verified that the server is indeed accepting connections:
I tried connecting to the SMTP server using telnet command
Last login: Fri Sep 16 11:08:06 on ttys000
admin:~ admin$ telnet mail.example.in 25
Trying 111.91.153.112...
Connected to mail.example.in.
Your script cannot connect to the SMTP server when run from its production server.
The likely cause is that the production server has a firewall that, to avoid abuse, prevents any connection to the outside. The server can serve Web requests, but no more.
If your test had verified that port 25 was not responding, then (after checking that the host address was correct) you could have tried telnet mail.example.in 587 instead. If that worked, it could have meant that the server is not accepting insecure connections (port 25) but is accepting secure connections. With PHPMailer you could then have tried activating secure connection:
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
or
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
If that does not work, you might still have a firewall issue; or you might need to look at phpinfo() and verify you do have OpenSSL support available in PHP.
What you need to do
ask the IT people that maintain the production server to open the firewall;
more promisingly, ask them how to send emails from that server. Chances are that you need to use the mail() function, or use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as SMTP server. Then the emails will go out through your production server's service network.
They might tell you that port 25 is not allowed, but port (say) 465 or 567 would be allowed. You will have to update your configuration and/or add TLS/SSL accordingly (see above).
or you might be allowed to connect to a third party SMTP server of which you will have to supply the IP address, to allow the IT guys to open a suitable firewall window. Then the emails will go out through the third party server.
The second problem (possibly NOT a problem)
250 marketing#example.in... Sender OK
RCPT to: john.hh#gmail.com
554 Relay rejected for policy reasons
Also to avoid abuse, SMTP Servers will not let everyone connect and send emails, but only their own customers. I see that in the PHPMailer configuration you specified an user and a password. In the telnet session you did not. So it might well be that PHPmailer could send, but not connect, while your telnet can connect, but not send.
Once you solve the connection problem, your authentication problem will either be solved or will have gone away (because you'll be using a different server supplied to you by the IT guys, for example localhost).
The third problem (might never arise)
A third way of abusing services is over-use - sending too many emails to too many people. Verify with the IT guys what the acceptable policies are for sending emails.
Problems, problems
Other things to look into are the credibility of the source (you might want to send emails on behalf of some domain which has not designated your SMTP server of choice as permitted sender), and the confidentiality of the data (even with TLS/SSL connections, if you are given localhost as the SMTP server, your IT guys will have complete, unfettered, undetectable access to any email you send. You might, or might not, be okay with that).
1st quote (from ibm community):
john.hh#gmail.com was a member of a group (Reject) that was listed in
gmail.com's "Deny messages intended for the following internet
addresses" field (in the destination server's Domino Configuration
document's Router/SMTP, Restrictions and Controls, SMTP Inbound
Controls tab's "Inbound Intended Recipient's Controls" section).
Removing Mary's hierarchical name (Mary Jones/ABC) from the members
list in the Reject (group) document allows Mary to receive messages
from the Internet.
2nd quote:
Most mail servers, to prevent them being used as anonymous spam
relays, are configured only to relay mail from certain hosts.
It's a bad idea to use your own SMTP.
Depending of what you have to do with it, you have some great chances to have your emails blocked in some ways or marked as SPAM. And you will have to spend some times to keep your server up to date.
Use online services that are white-listed for every provider and that expose API to send your transactionnal mails :
https://www.mailjet.com/
http://mailchimp.com/
...
They often propose a free account for small volume (under 2000 emails per days).
Using the API is quite trivial and can be put in place in some minutes (ex : https://dev.mailjet.com/)
Ask to your hosting provider if smtp is enabled on not on that server.I had same issue before for smtp and curl both.Contact hosting provider.
What's the phpmailer version?
You might forget to add this line
$mail->IsSMTP(); // use SMTP
after you initiate $mail.
Have a try.
So you have a GoDaddy server and you want to send email through your newly acquired SMTP Relay. Well “you can’t” is probably what you are going to find if you do some poking around Google.
If you poke around a little more you will probably find GoDaddy’s official solution is to use their internal mail relay. This is not ideal, because of arbitrary barriers they have set, such as this one:
Our dedicated servers have an outbound email limit of 1000 per day. If
you need to send more than 1000 emails per day, please call Customer
Support or open a support ticket to request a higher limit.
Quick and Working Solution: Get SMTP Relay that supports sending emails using HTTP API.
My Suggestion: (A simple and effective working solution, I am using personally)
Signup for an account in Sendgrid. Sendgrid provides free 12k emails per month, and I think that should suffice any basic needs.
First Step: Sendgrid will ask you to add few DNS records to authenticate you for sending emails on behalf of that host. So do it.
Second Step Step: Configure White Lables https://sendgrid.com/docs/User_Guide/Settings/Whitelabel/index.html (This is not important, but it will give professional look to the emails you are sending)
Third Step: Generate API keys
You can manage your API Keys from the SendGrid Customer Portal. Additionally, you can manage your API keys via the API itself.
Forth Step: Go ahead and write our codes.
Sending mails using PHP on sendgrid using this library available on github is easy:
// using SendGrid's PHP Library
// https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$sendgrid = new SendGrid("SENDGRID_APIKEY");
$email = new SendGrid\Email();
$email->addTo("test#sendgrid.com")
->setFrom("you#youremail.com")
->setSubject("Sending with SendGrid is Fun")
->setHtml("and easy to do anywhere, even with PHP");
$sendgrid->send($email);
How this works
GoDaddy blocks port 25, 2525, 587 and 485 which are ideal ports for SMTP. So we are using the port 80/443 and requesting the sengrid's API to send the email on our behalf behalf using port 80, and yes, we fooled GoDaddy.
I think within a few steps we can get this working properly.
In your Godaddy/Hostgator Cpanel > Select MX records > Select Domain in question > Select "Remote Mail Exchanger"
You can test mail delivery at this time, issue may be resolved.
I am sure it is set up right but trust me when it comes to good ole Cpanel, PhpMailer and Godaddy/Hostgator. It's a place where common sense makes no sense.
replace:
$mail->Host = 'mail.example.in';
with:
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
I believe this should resolve any issues assuming things like login credentials are valid.
I faced similar timeout issue , the reason was my hosting provider (Linode) .
TLDR; SMTP restrictions are in place by default for Linode on accounts created after November 5th 2019. You'll need to configure rDNS for your instance and open a Support ticket confirming CAN-SPAM compliance, and Support should lift the restrictions pretty quickly. I guess many people face this issue because of smtp restrictions
Timeout error is typical of packets dropped, so could be firewall issues between web server and SMTP server.
If you got ssh access to your server, you can try to connect to smtp using:
telnet <smtp server> 25
On timeout error even with telnet, you're quite sure that the problem is on network/firewall side.
You need to change some setting in your php.ini :
upload_max_filesize = 2M
;or whatever size you want
max_execution_time = 60
; also, higher if you must - sets the maximum time in seconds.
Were your PHP.ini is depends on your enviroment, more information:
reference
OR
Place this at the top of your PHP script and let your script loose
ini_set('max_execution_time', 600); //600 seconds = 10 minutes or set your time
I got your point. Same issue happen with me , I have just add one line and its working for me. please use ,
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
and configure your setting according to ssl . Also properly check mail configure at your serve end.
I recently transferred my server to VPS & now email function doesn't work for external emails.
Following are the settings I'm using:
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('ns1.example.com', 465, 'ssl')
->setUsername('testing#example.com')
->setPassword('password');
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
And the error that I'm getting is this:
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host dedrelay.where.example.net [XX.XXX.XXX.XX]: 554
m1plded02-01.prod.mesa1.example.net : DED :
gWqF1p02c0cB4sG01 : DED : ESMTP
No Relay Access Allowed From XXX.XXX.XXX
I've tried telnet & response is ok. I've tried following:
telnet ns1.example.com 465
Response was:
connected to xx.xxx.xxx.xx
I'm also not able to configure my desktop email client. Can anyone tell a solution? Any help will be appreciated.
EDIT
I'm not even able to send an email through server's webmail. Same error.
You tried telnet ns1.example.com 465 and it connected. This shows the SMTP server is up and running and your computer can reach it. But this is not all you need.
The error message No Relay Access Allowed From 123.123.123.123 means the SMTP server is configured to not accept emails from this IP address for relay, i.e. emails that needs to be passed to another server for delivery.
This is an anti-abuse measure and it means the SMTP server is configured correctly.
There is nothing wrong with your SwiftMailer configuration. Any email client (including the desktop client, as you said) you use, the answer is the same.
You need to contact the system administrator of the SMTP server and ask them to allow your IP address to use their SMTP server as relay. If they are your ISP it's also possible that the server allows relay only after authentication: you have an username/password pair (that you use to read the emails, f.e.) and you need to use it in order to send emails through their SMTP server. But this is only a supposition (this is how it usually works); you have to ask them to know for sure.
xampp , and codeigniter , i want to send emails from my localhost .
in ubuntu i can create an Email server very easily by
$ sudo apt-get install sendmail
and update the configuration in application/frontend/config/email.php
$config['useragent'] = "CodeIgniter";
$config['mailpath'] = "/usr/bin/sendmail"; // or "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
$config['protocol'] = "mail";
$config['smtp_host'] = "localhost";
$config['smtp_user'] = "";
$config['smtp_pass'] = "";
$config['smtp_port'] = "25";
i want to setup sendmail in windows , how can i do this ?? please help . search a lot , but could not find a working solution .
It is possible to set up a mail server on Windows. You'll need a separate product for that, see e.g. here and here. XAMPP comes with a mail server bundled.
However, using a local mail server is rarely wise. Mails coming from a dynamic IP address tend to get swallowed by spam filters, as anybody can do this from any internet connection. It's better to use the SMTP server that is serving the domain name you want to use as the sender domain.
My favourite solution for that is SwiftMailer. It's a replacement for the mail() command and comes with many options. Here is an example on how to make it work with GMail.
SwiftMailer doesn't work with the mail() command though: You'll have to change your PHP code to make this work.
I remember using BLAT, a command line mailer for windows. Dead simple install and usage, providing that you have an SMTP account avalaible. I would recommend this over setting up your own server.
It does not however replace mail() directly, nor is a mail server per se, so YMMV.
Use a service like authsmtp.com or gridsend.com. I find that these work well for tracking outbound email activity, managing spam boxes, plus you don't have to worry about a different sending environment on your local machine than your production environment.
You can also try minirelay. Quite easy to use and works fine.
http://www.blat.net/miniRelay/
On my localhost (Linux Mint OS) Swiftmailer is working fine with the following code, but whenever I move it up to my server is just hangs at the send function and then gives me an internal server error.
I currently have my email setup through Google Apps, so maybe SMTP will not work for this situation? If thats the case, how do you suggest I change this from SMTP.
Also, whenever I send an email like this, it is showing up with a from address of the one in the username area. I want it to show up with the from address in the "setFrom" function.
//Include the swiftmailer class
require_once 'comm/swiftmailer/swift_required.php';
//Create a message
//Pass it as a parameter when you create the message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance();
$message->setSubject('My Subject');
$message->setFrom(array('noreply#domain.com' => 'No Reply'));
$message->setTo(array('me#domain.com' => 'Me'));
$message->setBody($emailContent, 'text/html');
//Create transport class and email the message
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 465, 'ssl')->setUsername('useracctname')->setPassword('password');
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$result = $mailer->send($message);
Thanks a lot for any help!
This might be a port problem on the server. Port 465 could be closed to prevent spamming. It could also be that the server's version of PHP lacks SSL support.
I am wondering though, could it be that I am not using the local mail server so it wont allow SMTP?
If you address gmail as explicitly as you do, it's very unlikely you're using another transport type or a different server.
Also, what about using one of the other transport types?
I think SMTP is your only option to get it running with Gmail. It could, however, be that your server is providing a mail() based service (obviously with a different sender address than GMail though). In that case, you may be able to use Swiftmailer's mail transport.
I had the same problem : I was able to send gmail email in local (after updating that configuration : https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps ) but not in production.
To fix my problem I've logged to my gmail account with my production ip / from my production server and answer the gmail security question.
One of the solution to log to your gmail account with your production ip, is to
open an ssh tunnel (ssh -2NfCT -D 5000 yoursshuser#yourdomain.org)
configure you browser to use that proxy (eg Firefox :to Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings > Manual proxy configuration > SOCKS Hosts: localhost / Post: 5000 / SOCKS v5 )
log to you gmail account as usual
The error outputed by Symfony was :
app.ERROR: Exception occurred while flushing email queue: Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "joe.doe" using 1 possible authenticators [] []
well, here is the solution.
if you are sending SMTP mail you should create email account at the server then use this email info at your code.
the server will not send the email if you don't have valid email account to send using it
when you use "from".
this should be a true correct email account a fake one.
the only possible reason to send using fake account is using mail() function.