[FX.php List] Yikes! mail() has stopped working

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Thanks for your suggestion, Stephen.

In this case, the server is in a colo datacenter, and just the 
opposite is true.  The test from my home machine (Cable ISP) worked. 
The emails from the colo center don't work.

I need to dig into what the mail() function is doing and the 
conversation it is having with the next element down the line (SMTP? 
SendMail? PostFix?).

Are there logs that provide this info?

Jonathan


>The mail function as well as SMTP connections have been known to drop due to
>ISP restrictions. A few weeks back I was attempting to use the PEAR SMTP
>class to deliver the mail since my localhost did not have a mail server -
>when monitoring my packets it was clear that the SMTP connection was
>immediately closed. After some research this was due to port 25 being
>blocked by the ISP - your ISP might have similar restrictions. Also have you
>tried different email addresses (on different hosts), I suspect some might
>be blocking SMTP connections from domains that do not have proper mail
>credentials, since that could be the case with a local server.
>
>But all that is under the assumption that the server is hosted on a
>residential or a small business ISP connection - in a data center, I would
>be looking at the mail server logs instead.
>
>
>In Kindness
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>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schwartz
>Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:52 AM
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>Talk about coincidence.  Just as I was about to pro-actively beef up the
>mail() function in my scripts, the function stopped working.
>
>I've spent most of the day trying to revive it, to no avail.
>
>To test, I just have a one line script
><? mail( "me at mydomain.com", "My Subject","My Message", "From:
>admin at mydomain.com); ?>
>
>When I run the script on the server, it runs without error.  Watching the
>EIMS mail server console, the SMTP connection opens and then immediately
>closes.  No message is received.  No errors in the log.
>
>When I run the exact same script from my local machine using localhost, the
>script also runs fine and also delivers the mail as desired.
>
>Have to conclude that it is PHP/mail()/SMTP/Sendmail/whatever is broken on
>the server, and not the email server.
>
>I just don't know how to go about finding the problem other than performing
>the tests I have already done to isolate the problem.
>And, I'm nit sure f I should be looking under the covers at PHP or OS X
>Server.
>
>I really need to revive the email() function...fast.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan
>
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