Server isn't sending emails

[adam678]

Hi,

 

I recently bought dedicated hosting from sishco.com to host my new site (peelmybell.com ). But I have noticed that a lot of people have been signing up but not activating their accounts, some do, but a lot don't. So I contacted someone who hadn't validated their account to check if there was a problem with the registration process, and he told me he never received the email, I checked with a few others and they told me the same thing.

 

It's not a problem with a specific email service. There are people from hotmail, gmail, aol, yahoo and a few others who haven't received the validation link, but others with the same email service have. I have signed up with 2 of my gmail accounts and my hotmail account and I received the validation email each time, and it never shows up in the spam folder.

 

When I set-up the domain on the server I did nothing to the mail server settings, I just left it with the default settings and it seemed to be working fine, but obviously not. I don't know jack about mail servers, so is there something I need to do to make sure all email are being sent?

 

 

Here is the PHP that generates the validation email:

 

		  if ($config['uemail_valid'] == '1')
	  {
		  $subject = ''.$config['sitename'].' Account Validation';
		  
		  $message = $config['user_validation_email'];
		  $message = str_replace('[username]', $username, $message);
		  $message = str_replace('[password]', $password, $message);
		  $message = str_replace('[siteurl]', $config['siteurl'], $message);
		  $message = str_replace('[sitename]', $config['sitename'], $message);
		  $message = str_replace('[validation_link]', '<a href="'.$config['siteurl'].'/validate/'.$val_num.'/'.$username.'/">'.$config['siteurl'].'/validate/'.$val_num.'/'.$username.'</a>', $message);
		  
		  $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
		  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
		  $headers .= 'From: '.$config['adminemail'].'';
		  
		  mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
		  $update = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET validated = '0' WHERE username = '$username'");
		  
		  $msg = $lang['reg_complete_e'];
	      $msg = str_replace('[username]', $username, $lang['reg_complete_e']);
	  }

 

Thanks

[per1os]

Search the forum, this has been covered many many times and I do not wish to repeat what I already posted 5 times on this forum.

[adam678]

I did search before posting and a lot of people are saying they can't get the emails to send. But I can get the emails to send, they just don't seem to send to everyone for some reason. I get no error messages and so I have no idea where to being in solving this problem.

 

If this has been discussed and solved before then I apologies, but when I searched it was just people looking for help in getting the emails to send, not getting help with the emails not sending to everyone...

[trq]

If its a dedicated server Id'e suggest searching your error logs. It could be a problem with the mail server rather than php.

[per1os]

It could be a problem with the sendmail like thorpe said. But another part of it is that some companies like yahoo and hotmail decide to block mail coming from servers. I know hotmail filters my server's messages to the "junk mail" folder and AOL denys delivery.

 

But one thing that would probably help is the -f feature of sendmail.

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

Example 1051. Sending mail with an additional command line parameter.

The additional_parameters parameter can be used to pass an additional parameter to the program configured to use when sending mail using the sendmail_path.
<?php
mail('[email protected]', 'the subject', 'the message', null,
   '[email protected]');
?> 

 

As I did notice your code does not have that. I do not know if you tried adding the -f in there or not. I would suggest you do that and see what happens.