Not exactly your answer, but I remember having same problems one time. I switched and started using phpmailer, http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ This has in the past never given me problems, 1 time I had problems on the server using the php functions, but phpmailer even has SMTP support. Just alter 1 line and everything is online again. mail() function may be more than good enough, but you might want to check out the phpmailer which is quite awesome! -- Kim Steinhaug --------------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 types of people when it comes to binary numbers: those who understand them, and those who don't. --------------------------------------------------------------- "Jerry" <jusa_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20031121112813.54334.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi, > > I have a MAJOR problem with PHP mail() function, one > that is odd and very frustrating as I have no idea > what is causing it. I have used the one script to > send emails out in the past and they have been > sucessfully sent out, but as of a few days ago and now > they are bouncing, some are actually being sent and > some just simply won't go out. So let me explain. > > > I have an admin area of my site where I have all users > in a mysql database. Their email address, names, > address, etc. The admin side allows me to do many > tasks like send out text-based emails via PHP mail() > function and HTML emails. What it does is I type in > the field boxes and saves to a mysql table, than I run > a cronjob to grab the email data and email addresses > and send out using PHP mail(). The script worked fine > in the past, no problems but now I get the following > message when I attempt to send emails: > > --- > This message was created automatically by mail > delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one > or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following > address(es) failed: > > USEREMAIL@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > unrouteable mail domain "cashgrace.com" > > --- > > But that's not all, it comes up as that for all > domains, like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, bigpond.com > etc... All of them, even though they are reachable via > webmail. I can go into webmail via CPANEL and send > emails and they actually go to the person, so does not > seem like a mail server problem or does it? I > beleive, but could be wrong, it is somewhere in the > mail() function on the root part of the server. But > of course I don't have access to it. > > But the weird thing is this... Some emails 1/10 do > actually get sent and delivered, do not bounce, but > the other 9 fail. Why? Well I did some more > investigating... Well for what I have access to. > > The Server Load for the Server was flashing RED in the > Server Status area. So I persume this is bad? Maybe > due to this maybe it's attempting to send emails but > looping and not got enough resources to actually do > the job and in the end gives up and produces the > bounced email? As I said before I could be way off > track but worth suggesting and trying to figure it > out. > > Is there a way to DEBUG my mail() function I call in > the cronjob? > > The joy of the CRONJOB is that it's written in PHP > also, so I can view it on a webpage. So if there is a > way to DEBUG it I should see where the error is? Or > won't I? > > Any suggestions? > > I've looked long and hard, emailed my admin and they > are optimistic with the problem also so thought I'd > post here and see what can be done and if we can get > some outside help. > > As I said before the script for the mail() has NEVER > been changed. So it can't be my code as it has worked > in the past. Must be server side somewhere... Unless > my admin has done an update and something has gone > wrong. But I thought someone on here would know what > could cause the error, at least we can investigate it > instead of having no idea what is causing the problem. > All the help is needed here if people can provide it. > > Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long email. But > this problem is really giving me the 'you know what' > now. > > Jerry > > http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals > New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
