I’m trying to set up a PHP document that will send a confirmation email to the user. The email only makes it to the user’s inbox if their email is a gmail account. No other types of emails will work.
Here is what the mail.log file displays for a non-gmail address (I’ve replaced the user emails with “useraddress”, instead of the actual email):
Jun 11 21:25:46 MrGarretto sendmail[13722]: t5C1Pkpi013722: from=www-data, size=417, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201506120125.t5C1Pkpi013722@mrgarretto.com>, relay=www-data@localhost
Jun 11 21:25:46 MrGarretto sm-mta[13723]: t5C1PkMp013723: from=<www-data@mrgarretto.com>, size=683, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201506120125.t5C1Pkpi013722@mrgarretto.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jun 11 21:25:46 MrGarretto sendmail[13722]: t5C1Pkpi013722: to=(useraddress)@sbcglobal.net, ctladdr=www-data (33/33), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30417, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (t5C1PkMp013723 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 11 21:25:47 MrGarretto sm-mta[13725]: t5C1PkMp013723: to=<useraddress@sbcglobal.net>, ctladdr=<www-data@mrgarretto.com> (33/33), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=120683, relay=al-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net. [144.160.235.143], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
Jun 11 21:25:47 MrGarretto sm-mta[13725]: t5C1PkMp013723: t5C1PlMp013725: DSN: Service unavailable
Jun 11 21:25:47 MrGarretto sm-mta[13725]: t5C1PlMp013725: to=<www-data@mrgarretto.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30000, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Here is what the mail.log file displays when the user has specified a gmail address:
Jun 11 21:23:01 MrGarretto sendmail[13701]: t5C1N1dn013701: from=www-data, size=413, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201506120123.t5C1N1dn013701@mrgarretto.com>, relay=www-data@localhost
Jun 11 21:23:01 MrGarretto sm-mta[13702]: t5C1N1nw013702: from=<www-data@mrgarretto.com>, size=679, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201506120123.t5C1N1dn013701@mrgarretto.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jun 11 21:23:01 MrGarretto sendmail[13701]: t5C1N1dn013701: to=(useraddress)@gmail.com, ctladdr=www-data (33/33), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30413, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (t5C1N1nw013702 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 11 21:25:02 MrGarretto sm-mta[13704]: STARTTLS=client, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, bits=128/128
Jun 11 21:25:03 MrGarretto sm-mta[13704]: t5C1N1nw013702: to=<(useraddress)@gmail.com>, ctladdr=<www-data@mrgarretto.com> (33/33), delay=00:02:02, xdelay=00:02:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=120679, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. [74.125.143.27], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK 1434072303 ku8si2066020lac.87 - gsmtp)
Also, the PHP file which is sending the emails is on a subdomain of “mrgarretto.com”, if it makes a difference.
This is what my etc/hosts file looks like:
# Your system has configured 'manage_etc_hosts' as True.
# As a result, if you wish for changes to this file to persist
# then you will need to either
# a.) make changes to the master file in /etc/cloud/templates/hosts.tmpl
# b.) change or remove the value of 'manage_etc_hosts' in
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg or cloud-config from user-data
127.0.1.1 MrGarretto MrGarretto
127.0.0.1 localhost
45.55.236.86 mrgarretto.com localhost
45.55.236.86 cmd.mrgarretto.com localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
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I’ve solved it: I simply forgot to include the headers when it sends the mail
Hi,
Could you provide your headers configurations? I have the same problem.
Thank you.
Sure! Here is the PHP code that I run to send an email:
$message = "The body of the message";
$message = wordwrap($message, 70, "\r\n");
$headers = 'From: register@mrgarretto.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: register@mrgarretto.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$mailResult = mail($email_a, 'Insert a subject here', $message, $headers);
Hope it helps :)
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