RE: Re: mail() function and AOL users

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I'm quite sure it's not a problem with the mail function. It's probably
the reverse dns configuration on your SMTP/sendmail server. AOL &
Verizon have been two real sticklers for that.

If you know the IP address that your server is sending the email from
you can use this:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=YOURIPADDRESS

To check the revers dns resolution. You may be surprised.

<>< Ryan 

-----Original Message-----
From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:28 PM
To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: mail() function and AOL users

Hello,

On 12/12/2003 04:34 AM, Matt Perry wrote:
> I use the following php mail function in an online applicaiton
program:
> 
> mail($email, "application submitted", $message, "From: 
> employment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx\r\n");
> 
> This function does not always work when I modify $message.  I have 
> checked for null values for $message already but this does not seem to

> be the problem.
> I am trying to develop some sort of pattern of when this function 
> works and when it does not.
> The only essential difference between the values I pass in for message

> is the one that does not always work includes a link.  Apparently 
> anyone useing AOL email is particularly vulnerable to this problem.
> 
> Is it likely that AOL and other mail servers sometimes block any email

> from a web site if it has a link in the main body?  Or should I not be

> useing mail() in this manner to begin with?

Maybe you are not generating the message headers and body properly. 
Without seeing the code that you use to define $message, it is hard to
tell.

I just suggest that you try this class to properly compose and send your
messages:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage


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