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[Russ Demarest]

Try using phpMailer and the $mail->Host ="your server domain" parameter.

I am assuming you are sending mail from a script on a shared host?

Good Luck

On May 18, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Marc Antony Vose wrote:

> Hi guys:
>
> I labeled this out as 'OT', because it started out as a PHP mail()
> issue, but it apparently has nothing to do with PHP.
>
> I am getting a bit desperate and honestly don't really have the
> budget for a dedicated sysadmin on this project, but I'll give
> someone some $$$ or some lovely item(s) from their amazon wish list
> if they can help me with something.
>
> The problem, succinctly stated, is: the server can email some domains
> (such as mine, and gmail.com) and not others (such as mac.com,
> hotmail.com, and the client's).
>
> The reason, I suspect, is reverse DNS issues, the server's 'SMTP
> banner' (which is wrong), or some other thing.
>
> I think the client's domain is a special case, because the domain is
> on the same machine as a Web host, but the email is elsewhere.
>
> But mac.com and hotmail.com and so forth are something else; they
> must be rejecting the mail (or possibly never receiving it?)
>
> I'm not getting mail bouncebacks to the reply-to address, so it's
> possible that our server is holding the emails and not even sending
> them out.
>
> The hosting company (servermatrix) told me that there are two likely
> causes:  reverse DNS and the resolv.conf file
>
> I have had them add reverse dns pointers, and I checked myself that
> resolv.conf had their DNS server's IP addresses in it.
>
> I've been reading about reverse DNS, and "Envelope-to:" addresses,
> and all sorts of other things, and it's not making much sense to me.
> I figured someone else must know the ins and outs of this stuff.
>
> If someone can help me with this, or point me in the right direction
> of what to troubleshoot first, it would be greatly appreciated.  you
> could also contact me off-list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Marc Antony Vose
> http://www.suzerain.com/
>
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
> -- Benjamin Franklin
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