I want to know if there is a option in php or .net to say from which ip address we can send out email.
We have couple ip addresses on one of our servers and we don't want to send the emails from the default ip, instead we want to send them from the other ip.
Thanks in advance.
PHP can't control the outgoing IP, since it's not acting as a mail server. the mail() function simply connects to whatever SMTP server is specified in php.ini and hands the mail over for the SMTP server to handle.
You can certainly tell the SMTP server which IPs it should bind to, here's how for Postfix. If your website's on a.b.c.d, you want emails to appear from e.f.g.h, then tell Postfix (or whatever server you're using) bind to e.f.g.h and 127.0.0.1.
And of course, you could always run the SMTP software on a completely seperate server as well.
It is controlled by the operating system, not php.
Do you have a SMTP server you can use? That way you will be sure it isn't being sent from a webserver IP address.
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So, I developed this web application which needs me to send emails to everyone (details in a mysql database), providing a unique set of user credentials. I have a virtual server on the University network where I am hosting my PHP based application, so it obviously doesn't have its own mail server/SMTP settings.
So, if I were to send out mails from a university network, I guess I should request the network admin for the SMTP settings for the university mail network and then use PEAR for it right?
I need to confirm this because it's kind of a big deal to make a request like that, and I myself have never used PHP to send mails 'from' an external email id not linked to the server.
Are there any alternatives to this?
Yes you can use PEAR::mail to send mails via SMTP server. However, if SMTP is configured on localhost you can simply use mail() function to send mail. You can also connect to SMTP server via socket but then you need to handle whole protocol communication.
I am trying to send an e-mail from localhost but am getting the error:
Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set().
Does this mean i need to set up a local mail server?? and if so how and which one is easiest.
Thanks in advance
Paul
This is what I use, but it's for testing purposes only:
http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/
There's almost no configuration, and I got it to work right out of the box (on Win7) after failure with several other mail servers. It does not send the actual mail, but stores it as an .eml file. This is great for testing mailing lists for instance, where you don't really want to send the 2000 emails, but want to get a realistic result from your application.
It might look like garbage, but it's been working great for me.
Yes, it does, and if you want to send mail to an outside email address (and not a user local to the system, it is annoyingly difficult).
Most hosting companies (e.g. GoDaddy) have this setup for you, so PHP's mail() function works without you needing to do anything.
If you're configuring it on your own system, you might want to consider (a) configuring sendmail to use an alternate SMTP gateway (I frequently use Gmail) or (b) a complete alternative to sendmail (Zend Mail looks promising.)
If you are using Linux, there is usually no need to set up a a mail server,
If you are using Windows, yes, you do need to set up a mail server
If you are interested in just sending mail, you can by SMTP protocol use any SMTP server. Here is a tutorial to setting up PHP to use a remote SMTP server.
Yes, you need a mail server to be able to send mail, but even if you do, you are not going to be able to send to addresses outside of you local network as mail from your computer will be blocked by all recipients for spam reasons.
You could use the pear mail function to connect to an external smtp providor like gmail to send the mails for you. More info here and here.
smtp4dev is in my opinion the best tool for capturing local SMTP traffic on Windows.
It listens SMTP on localhost port 25 and pops up a notification every time a new mail is posted (it doesn't actually forward the mail to its recipient). You can then open the message in your favorite mail agent or save it to a file.
I'm building a site on my home computer using MAMP. The code I'm using employs the PHP mail() function to send emails, but whenever I test it, the mails aren't getting sent.
My computer is connected to the net, but I'm wondering if there's something about local hosting that prevents mails from getting sent. I'm not getting any kind of error message.
Any ideas?
PHP can send mail in one of two ways.
The first, and the default on non-Windows systems, is to use the local mail transfer agent installed on the system. This would be "sendmail" or an application compatible with it, the most popular probably being postfix.
The other is to connect via SMTP to some mail server.
You will either need to install a mail transfer agent on your local system (and set it up correctly), or edit PHP's configuration to specify an SMTP server address and port.
Yes, there are things that could block locally hosted mail. For one, your ISP could block SMTP to servers other than the ISP. ask your ISP support if they block SMTP... Or try telexing so someone's MX port 25 and do you get a response?
If your ISP blocks smtp you can still send the mail, but first you must relay that email through a hosted email server like your ISP mail server. This process is called 'smart hosting' and you can search for more info.
Even if you are not blocked on port 25, many sites will refuse or lose smtp traffic that originates from a dynamic or residential IP address, so again the smart host suggestion.
Also I suggest not using the built in mail() function in PHP... Use something that replaces and improves it like http://pear.php.net/package/Mail or http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/. Again, use the SMTP method as it is way more reliable than direct sending or calling Sendmail.
It is important to confirm this problem, doing SMTP manually over telnet. That way you isolate the problem from PHP. I did ISP support for years and saw this question lots. Most people setup php and mail correctly but get stuck on a background network issue with SMTP.
If you have Wireshark installed, it can record network traffic and you might see the actual SMTP traffic, for example the remote server may be refusing your connection. Wireshark is helpful but not required to solve this though. Good luck.
You need to setup SMTP server in order to be able use mail function, or you can use PHPMailer class, with it you can avoid using mail function and setup problems, PHPMailler need socket extension to be loaded in order to function correctly.
We are having a problem with a web application delivering emails. Suppose the site lives on domain.com. Emails sent to manager#domain.com aren't being recieved by the client, but when we set it to developer#developersdomain.com or manager#aliasdomain.com they are received by the developer and the manager, respectively.
Is php's mail() command delivering email addresses to the location domain to localhost, instead of routing it through a mail server?
Sadly, this is the way that the mailserver itself works. It knows the machine it's on is domain.com and assumes the mailbox should be a local box.
This is why it's a good idea to have your server's domain name actually be a subdomain, even if it's just www.domain.com. That way, mail addressed to manager#domain.com is sent on to the mail server specified by domain.com's MX record.
That'll be a setting on your mail software at the serverside I guess! Check your software settings.
I'm running a vps with cPanel/CentOS, And i want to dynamically choose the IP address to send an email from right inside the php code. ( i'm open to any weired ways )
Is there any way to do that? i would really appreciate some clear ideas as i'm not that good at exim and stuffs.
P.S. i already have available IPs in WHM.
Thank you
You can achieve this by using sendmail and passing parameters to define the configuration file to use. Inside the configuration file you can use the Masquerading And Relaying options together with CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Addr=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd') to send via a certain IP.
When using PHP mail use the additional_parameters to specify the sendmail config file to use and in that config file use the above options to configure it.
PHP has no control whatsoever over the SMTP server that sends the mail. You can bind SMTP servers (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc...) to specific interfaces, but that's got nothing to do with PHP. PHP's involvement with the email sending process is purely to generate the mail and then hand it over to an SMTP server for actual delivery.
Here is a thought. If what you need is to send the mail from a specific IP you have control over, but where the impetus for that mail doesn't originate from that IP, but from some web interface or whatever, you could:
Add the mail details to a table on a DB with the desired IP address as a field.
Setup crons to run a php script on each box with those IPs.
Parse over the table with that script to find any mail that needs to come from that IP.
Send the mail.
I have a reseller account on a virtual host and all my domains for example are under the same IP number, then whatever domain I'm using to send an email, it will be sent under the same IP number, I think it is controlled by the smtp especification, you can configure your smtp to send email with another server where of course you have an account.
Also create a table to control what server you want to use to delivery yours email.
ClientPortOptions and DaemonPortOptions are special cases since multiple
clients/daemons can be defined. This can be done via
CLIENT_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...')
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`field1=value1,field2=value2,...')
Note that multiple CLIENT_OPTIONS() commands (and therefore multiple
ClientPortOptions settings) are allowed in order to give settings for each
protocol family (e.g., one for Family=inet and one for Family=inet6). A
restriction placed on one family only affects outgoing connections on that
particular family.
Source: http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/docs/configuration_readme/