Can send to outside e-mail addresses, but not internal

[Jeremy Aldrich]

Hey all,

I'm a php beginner, though I do most of my work in ASP and ASP.NET and have run into a problem with the FormMail.php script.

I can send e-mails externally from my hosted account but cannot send e-mails to any e-mail address within my hosted account.

I've narrowed it down to a php setting by using the plain mail() test:
<?php
if (mail("test@testdomain.com","Testing","This is a test"))
echo "Mail sent";
else
echo "Error sending mail";
?>

This definitely works for external addresses, but not internal ones.

Does anyone know what setting might be set/not set correctly?

Thank you for your time.

[asket]

hi

sorry, not a hunch..

maybe take a look at this thread:
http://tectite.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=717

or search the FormMail Subscription Support forum..

erik

[asket]

have just found this thread http://tectite.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=736

seems to be quite a similar problem

[Jeremy Aldrich]

Erik,

I saw both of those before I posted. The first one isn't solved and the second one is a problem sending externally, not internally.

My problem is that I can send to any external e-mail but I cannot send to any user/domain within the hosted account. It's gotta be some sendmail setting within PHP, but I don't know which one.

Anyone have a clue?

[asket]

that's why i've posted "not a hunch" – cause i've no clue
and, sure, i know that it's not solved
but maybe you'll get an useful reply from the forum member who has/had the problem before if you send him/her a private message ...

[Jeremy Aldrich]

I've found the fix.

For those of you that have the same problem, the issue has to do with the e-mail users, not sendmail or PHP. The issue is that the user must be created with FTP access initially so that the user's Home Directory is created. Without the Home Directory, sendmail is lost and dumps the e-mail to the dead.letter

Good Luck!

[sagaraptor]

I've found the fix.

For those of you that have the same problem, the issue has to do with the e-mail users, not sendmail or PHP. The issue is that the user must be created with FTP access initially so that the user's Home Directory is created. Without the Home Directory, sendmail is lost and dumps the e-mail to the dead.letter

Good Luck!

What do you mean? can u show me how?