I recently performed a parallel update from phplist 2.10.12 to 3.0.12. We kept the old version operational while the client became accustomed to the new one in demo mode. Today we switched to 3.0.12 and turned off demo mode, and we're having difficulty with the test emails.
phplist is configured to send two test emails, one in text and one in html. When sending a test to me, both emails are sent (and are put in spam), and phplist announces that they were sent successfully. When sending a test email to the client, however, only the text message is sent successfully. When changing the setting to only send one email, phplist announces that sending failed, and indeed no email shows up.
The client is indeed capable of receiving html emails at that address, and the error log says Error sending email to [email address] Could not instantiate mail function. However, to reiterate, it did send correctly to me - twice. But it fails every time sending to the client.
I am unfamiliar with configuring phplist, and any help here would be appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: from config.php:
# To use a SMTP server please give your server hostname here, leave it blank to use the standard
# PHP mail() command.
define("PHPMAILERHOST",'');
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So I was reading the last section of this page and it talks about knowing if there's a problem sending an email.
As a test, I use:
my personal Gmail acct (I got the email on this one)
a fake email using the company domain (e.g. myfakeemailhere123456789#companyB.com). I know it's going to be fake since our company uses some standards for their email address.
and both resulted in returning a blank array.
Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
edit: I'm using postfix that's locally installed in the server.
Swiftmailer ist only for sending mails,
so if you have an issue sending the email you could make use of try/catch
BUT it will not receive any mails, so you will not be able to receive and react to a bounce-mail (the mail that will be returned by your company-webserver if the adress doesnt exist)
Should there be a record of all php sent mail (via our hosts mail() function) anywhere?
Our web developer made an oversight and all enquiries sent via the our host's (godaddy.com) mailer relay for the last 2 months were rejected by our local mail server. Naturally, our server doesn't keep any rejected emails.
I have spoken to godaddy.com and they claim there is no record, however I'm not particularly confident with the answer.
Is there anything I can do? The enquiry form is now fixed (used Mandrill), so that's not an issue.
No, the mails are gone now.
Rejected mails that a mail server tried to send usually go to the mail admin account of the sending server as a bounce - however, even that account might not be set up or failing or rejecting mail, so the mail server will get rid of these undeliverable mails that double-bounced by deleting them from the queue.
You might get an idea of what was tried to mail if you are able to get your hand onto a mail server logfile, but assuming this is in the hands of your hosting provider, your chances are low: 1. these logs would only give you an idea of which mail addresses were involved, but no content. 2. the log files usually get deleted quickly because they'd serve no regular purpose.
I have a script set up that will email a user an activation link when they insert their email into the provided input.
I'm using CodeIgniter's email class to send the multipart emails and the problem I'm having is that when the email is sent, the debugger says that the email was sent sucessfully but the message is never received.
When I send the email to my internal work email, it sends just fine. But when I send it to my gmail account, it never comes through.
I've managed to track down the issue as being a problem with inserting links within the email. When I remove the link, the email sends fine. I put the link back in and the email is never received by my gmail account.
Has anyone ever come accross this problem or do you have any insight into how to fix this?
your email is being rejected.. this is no CI issue..
Ok, so it sounds like the problem isn't with CodeIgniter or your code, but with the server's mail transfer agent sending it on to the Gmail server.
What happens is CodeIgniter puts together an email and gives it to the PHP engine, which passes it on to the mail transfer agent on the server for sending. The MTA will report back to PHP, and therefore CodeIgniter, that it has received the email properly. As PHP & CodeIgniter's jobs are finished at this point, they will report that they've sent successfully.
Check your spam folder in your Gmail to see if it's been put in there..? I haven't used CI for a while so can't remember exactly, but I think there's an HTML-email parameter you may need to set before you send. If so, Gmail might be expecting this to be set too.
Scroll down to 'Email Preferences' here:
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html and set the mailtype to HTML.
If that doesn't work, you will need to debug fully.
To debug the problem properly you will need to be able to access the MTA logs. Is this a local development server or a live production machine? Is it Linux or Windows? If Linux, which distribution? Do you know which MTA you are using? Do you have SSH access to the server?
If you can get SSH access and find out which MTA you have things will be a lot simpler to find out and you'll be able to monitor the outgoing messages and the destination servers' responses as they happen.
I made a php form but I have a problem. The form is sending the message and a thank message displays but am not receiving the message in my gmail inbox.
Check your server mail log. Check your Gmail junk folder.
Well post the code! I've used PHP's mail function and it worked. Perhaps Gmail is filtering the e-mail sent by PHP. Try using an e-mail account on a different domain to narrow down where the problem is.
Gmail may be treating the e-mail as spam. Try sending to an e-mail account not on Gmail.
This could be one of hundreds of problems, many of which are beyond your control.
I had a similar problem trying to make a simple PHP app to send email - one day it worked, the next day it didn't. No error. No indication that it failed. Nothing.
To debug the problem I installed Ubuntu on a virtual machine which meant I had my own web abd mail servers to play with - made it easy to check server side logs and multiple recipients etc. Basically you are in 100% control - if it works in this environment but not in the real world, chances are it isn't your fault!
Turned out that my web host had put in new security policies that the "From:" address had to be a physical mailbox on their system. Not my hosting user name. Not a forwarded web address.
- they just didn't bother to tell anyone they had done it!
Make sure your to and from set correctly. If the from is not an address gmail likes then it could be taken as spam.
The project that I'm currently working on, is large scale. I'm using email activation method for user registration system: Sending activation code via my shared hostings smtp server to users email address after successful signup.
During tests, I have noticed that, it sends emails to famous mail services like gmail, live without any problem and receiver gets message directly but when I tried to send email to well known email server (rambler.ru), the swiftmailer script (that I'm using to send emails) returned success message. BUT another side didn't received any message. That's big problem for me.
At first I thought maybe that's scripts problem. Tried phpmailer too. No success. Then tried to send from Outlook to that server for testing purposes. The user on rambler.ru received message with very big delay. I'm using shared hosting on Hostgator. There might be users that using rambler.ru server, and I dunno if that's one and only server that occurs such problem.
How to deal with that problem? I know that, I can send from live or gmail servers with "fake" from name. But another problem, is there will be probably daily limit or something like that. Any suggestions?
Check your SMTP server's logs to see what happened to the email. Getting TRUE from mail() or swiftmailer just means that they've successfully handed the email off to your smtp server. It does NOT mean that the email was delivered to the receiving host. That comes later, AFTER your php script has exited.