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

impelmedia · 11-27-2009, 08:12 AM

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!

Web31337 · 11-27-2009, 10:07 AM

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.

impelmedia · 11-30-2009, 02:52 AM

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

jippen · 11-30-2009, 02:55 AM

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.

linuxlover.chaitanya · 11-30-2009, 06:19 AM

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.