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Problems with PHP mail on new linux server....

Hello!

I have been tearing my hair out all day over this one.... we are currently migrating from a windows web server to a linux box with apache and php 5... however my mail scripts within our websites are causing us big problems! I can send mail to googlemail and yahoo, but if i try to send it to a custom mail server (i.e. our business mailserver) or an email address currently located at our old web server nothing is coming through. I'm not getting any errors when i send the mail though - the response comes back as '1', as in success....well surely no emails coming through means this is a lie?!?!?! I have a feeling it is a server side problem....as the script used to send the mail works for google/yahoo..the code we are using is the following:

Code:

include "/usr/share/php/Mail.php";

      

        $date = date("D, d M Y H:i:s O");

      

        $returnPath = "email@address";



        $from = "email@address";

      

        $to = $_POST['email'];

      

        $subject = "Forgotten Password - New Login Details";

      

        $body = $message;

      

        $host = "localhost";

      

        $username = "username";

      

        $password = "password";

      

      

        $headers = array ('From' => $from,

      

          'To' => $to,

      

          'Subject' => $subject,

        

          'Date' => $date,

      

          'Return-path' => $returnPath);

      

        $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',

      

          array ('host' => $host,

      

            'auth' => true,

      

            'username' => $username,

      

            'password' => $password));

      

      

      

        $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

Can anyone help?? Obviously we don't want our clients without their mail facilities for very long!

Thanks in advance!

have they received mail before you moved?
if you can send it and google,yahoo can get it, perhaps you need to look onto your mail servers.

Thank you! We will do that...hopefully it is something that simple!

I do support for a spam filtering company for a living so, believe me, I've seen a lot of this sort of thing happening.

I recommend checking the logs on your mailserver, to see if it rejected the email. If you can't access the logs, or can't find them, run a packet capture, send a test email to yahoo, and one to the work server, and check what the differences are.

If its your server you could try using a PEAR library. I remember using this library some time ago for the same purpose. Do not have the code at hand but can surely give you a day later.