Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

I'm using mail($address,$subjectheading,$message,"From:
me@mysite.com") to send emails from my site. For the most part, it
works okay (for example, I receive the mail in my Yahoo box). But when
I check my university email, the message is not delivered. I thought
maybe it was because I had included my web address in the subject
heading and that it was being filtered out, but I removed that from
the subject and it still fails to get through. I'm making a wedding
site for some friends now and they want to be able to email everyone
on their guest list at once, but I'm afraid the same will happen to
some of these addresses as well. Any comments/suggestions on what may
be blocking the mail and how I can get around it? I'm not trying to
send out any kind of mass ad mailings or anything. Just to people on a
mailing list for this site.

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

Hello,

On 01/19/2004 02:36 PM, Jonathan wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm using mail($address,$subjectheading,$message,"From:
> me@mysite.com") to send emails from my site. For the most part, it
> works okay (for example, I receive the mail in my Yahoo box). But when
> I check my university email, the message is not delivered. I thought
> maybe it was because I had included my web address in the subject
> heading and that it was being filtered out, but I removed that from
> the subject and it still fails to get through. I'm making a wedding
> site for some friends now and they want to be able to email everyone
> on their guest list at once, but I'm afraid the same will happen to
> some of these addresses as well. Any comments/suggestions on what may
> be blocking the mail and how I can get around it? I'm not trying to
> send out any kind of mass ad mailings or anything. Just to people on a
> mailing list for this site.[/color]

Are you setting the Return-Path address?

Is the maching you are using to deliver the messages a public host or
some box that you have at home in a dial-up/cable/adsl connection?

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Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

Jonathan a écrit le 19/01/2004 :[color=blue]
> I'm using mail($address,$subjectheading,$message,"From:
> me@mysite.com") to send emails from my site. For the most part, it
> works okay (for example, I receive the mail in my Yahoo box). But when
> I check my university email, the message is not delivered. I thought
> maybe it was because I had included my web address in the subject
> heading and that it was being filtered out, but I removed that from
> the subject and it still fails to get through. I'm making a wedding
> site for some friends now and they want to be able to email everyone
> on their guest list at once, but I'm afraid the same will happen to
> some of these addresses as well. Any comments/suggestions on what may
> be blocking the mail and how I can get around it? I'm not trying to
> send out any kind of mass ad mailings or anything. Just to people on a
> mailing list for this site.[/color]

Check if your host isn't listed in the black list of the University
server. If so the mail server of your host is maybe filtered by the
recipient server. If it is the case then you'll have to change of mail
server to send your mails via PHP.

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

The mailing is being done from a website on a paid host: bounceweb.com.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Jonathan


Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote in message news:<buheto$hdu55$2@ID-138275.news.uni-berlin.de>...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> On 01/19/2004 02:36 PM, Jonathan wrote:[color=green]
> > I'm using mail($address,$subjectheading,$message,"From:
> > me@mysite.com") to send emails from my site. For the most part, it
> > works okay (for example, I receive the mail in my Yahoo box). But when
> > I check my university email, the message is not delivered. I thought
> > maybe it was because I had included my web address in the subject
> > heading and that it was being filtered out, but I removed that from
> > the subject and it still fails to get through. I'm making a wedding
> > site for some friends now and they want to be able to email everyone
> > on their guest list at once, but I'm afraid the same will happen to
> > some of these addresses as well. Any comments/suggestions on what may
> > be blocking the mail and how I can get around it? I'm not trying to
> > send out any kind of mass ad mailings or anything. Just to people on a
> > mailing list for this site.[/color]
>
> Are you setting the Return-Path address?
>
> Is the maching you are using to deliver the messages a public host or
> some box that you have at home in a dial-up/cable/adsl connection?[/color]

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

Via PHP? In what sense? Are there settings I should change or should I
be using a different command? Thanks.

Jedi121 <jedi121news@free.fr.Removethis> wrote in message news:<mesnews.9d0f7d41.0dea4eea.462.2689@free.fr.R emovethis>...[color=blue]
> Jonathan a écrit le 19/01/2004 :[color=green]
> > I'm using mail($address,$subjectheading,$message,"From:
> > me@mysite.com") to send emails from my site. For the most part, it
> > works okay (for example, I receive the mail in my Yahoo box). But when
> > I check my university email, the message is not delivered. I thought
> > maybe it was because I had included my web address in the subject
> > heading and that it was being filtered out, but I removed that from
> > the subject and it still fails to get through. I'm making a wedding
> > site for some friends now and they want to be able to email everyone
> > on their guest list at once, but I'm afraid the same will happen to
> > some of these addresses as well. Any comments/suggestions on what may
> > be blocking the mail and how I can get around it? I'm not trying to
> > send out any kind of mass ad mailings or anything. Just to people on a
> > mailing list for this site.[/color]
>
> Check if your host isn't listed in the black list of the University
> server. If so the mail server of your host is maybe filtered by the
> recipient server. If it is the case then you'll have to change of mail
> server to send your mails via PHP.[/color]

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

Hello,

On 01/20/2004 02:41 AM, Jonathan wrote:[color=blue]
> The mailing is being done from a website on a paid host: bounceweb.com.
> Any ideas? Thanks.[/color]

Your server IP address is blacklisted for spamming. Is this server
yours? Have you hired it for a long time now?

http://openrbl.org/ip/64/246/20/63.htm

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

Jonathan a écrit le 20/01/2004 :[color=blue]
> Jedi121 <jedi121news@free.fr.Removethis> wrote in message
> news:<mesnews.9d0f7d41.0dea4eea.462.2689@free.fr.R emovethis>...[color=green]
>> Check if your host isn't listed in the black list of the University
>> server. If so the mail server of your host is maybe filtered by the
>> recipient server. If it is the case then you'll have to change of mail
>> server to send your mails via PHP.[/color]
>
> Via PHP? In what sense? Are there settings I should change or should I
> be using a different command? Thanks.[/color]

If you have no rights on php.ini there's no way to change the settings
of the mail() function. You'll have to change of WebHost (transferring
your website) and find one that is not blacklisted by your University
mail server or design a mail client that points to a known smtp server
using some kind of fsockopen() function.

PS : I resorted the text so answers are after questions :)

re: Emails blocked by certain mail hosts? (mail() function)

Thanks for all the info. The price on bounweb.com is nice, but to run
anything serious, I suppose I'll have to transfer somewhere else. I'd
rather just have my own server, but I'm not prepared to do that at
this point. Anyway, thanks again for the help.