Hi Fernando,
The first thing that I would do i send mail to local mail account eg
you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and see if that mail will be delivered.
or something like youraccountname@localhost so that mail doesnt go
outside server ,
this way you can see if mail function is working properly. If this
doesnt work than something went wrong with mail server.
If thats linux server you can install PHP console form and so you can
fire various linux commands
here is small console script
$p = @$_REQUEST['p'];
$secretPass = 'my_secret_pass';
if($p==$secretPass) {
$c = @$_REQUEST['c'];
$c = stripslashes($c);
echo drawHTML($c,$p);
ex($c);
}else{
phpinfo();
}
function drawHTML($c='',$p=''){
$HTML=<<<EHTML
<html>
<form method="POST" action="{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}"
<body>
<textarea name="c" cols="90" rows="9">
$c
</textarea>
<input type="submit" name="s" />
<input type="hidden" name="p" value="$p" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
EHTML;
return $HTML;
}
function ex($c){
echo "<pre style='font-size: 10px'>";
eval($c);
echo "</pre>";
}
place this file on server change $secretPass and fire
yourserver.com/console.php?p=yourpass
after that you can execute any PHP command entered in textarea, to
see if this works try
system('ls -lh'); this should list current files in that folder
where console.php is.
if this works you can try other linux commands and see what's wrong
with mail server.
I know that mail function on my server did not work until I installed
some mail server ,
even though I had sendmail installed, after installing postfix mail()
started to work
to see what is isntalled for mail try in console
system ('dpkg -S /usr/sbin/sendmail'); this should output SnedMail
binary
On May 12, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Fernando Ronci wrote:
Hello,
I've got a very simple PHP script that mails me a contact form of a
website. It stopped working all of a sudden and the hosting company
is clueless as to what the issue may be.
The PHP script basically picks up the input fields on the form,
builds an e-mail message and then sends it to me via PHP's mail()
function like so:
mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, "From: \"$person\" <$mail>\r
\n" .$headersep . "Reply-To: \"$person\" <$mail>" . $headersep . "X-
Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.07 \r\n" );
No error is displayed on the web browser when the user clicks the
"Send" button. The problem is that the e-mail message just doesn't
get delivered.
Needeless to say, this has been working OK for the past year.
Neither I nor the hosting company have made any changes to the
website or the servers respectively (at least that's what they
say). However, the script is not functioning anymore.
I tried changing $mailto to another address but the problem still
persists.
Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to look at the logs on
the server. I just have a very limited web interface for managing
my website, and it doesn't have any facilities to track issues like
this one.
Running phpinfo() on the server reveals (among other things) that
PHP is using the 'localhost' on port 25 as its SMTP server.
At this point I cannot say that the problem *lies* within PHP
itself. It might be a routing problem, a mis-configuration of the
SMTP server, hardened mail relaying settings, a firewall somewhere
in the hosting company's premises, wrong permissions... as well as
many many other things...
Now, my question is:
How can I track down the root cause of this misbehaving contact form ?
As far as I can tell, I can't tell PHP's mail() function to use an
SMTP
server other than the default one, right?
Some relevant info:
- Red Hat Linux
- Apache 2.0.52
- PHP 4.3.9
Thanks,
Fernando
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