It sends the bounced message to /var/mail/www-data and I get this: --19BE8A70109.1256417846/homemade Content-Description: Delivery report Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; homemade X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 19BE8A70109 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; www-data@homemade Arrival-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; xxx@xxxxxxx Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; shawmail.vc.shawcable.net --19BE8A70109.1256417846/homemade Content-Description: Undelivered Message Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: by homemade (Postfix, from userid 33) id 19BE8A70109; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:57:26 -0700 (PDT) To: xxx@xxxxxxx I will investigate how to change the loglevel of postfix, because right now the error messages don't seem very helpful (at least to me). Cheers On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:27 PM, John Black <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Prentice wrote: > > Also, I notice that in the mail.log file, the 'from:' value is >> >> 'www-data@homemade'. The actual 'from:' value is provided to the php >> mail() function via a web form, so should be somebody's email address >> (e.g. my own in this case). > > I think PHP will use the apache user and domain to generate the email > address. I use my own smtp function so I can't say for certain. > > One thing you could try is to use a valid email account on the server for > the FROM address so that you can receive the bounced message. The actual > message should contain more information. > Alternatively attempt to increase the loglevel of postfix so you get exact > feedback of why the connection is failing. > > As far as which server to use. I think this page lists the correct one: > http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/CustomerCare/InternetSupport/Residential/RoutersandShawServerNames.htm > > -- > John > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php