How would I determine my ISP's SMPT server ID? And do I need to edit
main.cf in order to use that server?

Also, is there a way to test the script just sending an email locally?
I tried sending the email to use...@localhost, but the email was still
not received.



On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, LinuxManMikeC <linuxmanmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is you won't be trusted to deliver mail directly to most
> mail servers unless you have a static IP.  Even then thats no
> guarantee.  What you have to do is relay through your ISP's SMTP
> server where you're "trusted".  You should also be able to setup PHP
> to use your ISP's SMTP server and never touch the SMTP service on your
> local machine (if you don't feel like playing with Postfix).
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, James Prentice <prentice....@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I'm trying to use the php mail() function to send a mail within a php
>> script. This is using PHP 5.2.4 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron linux. The
>> script runs fine and the return value of the mail function is TRUE,
>> but the mail is never received. I'm trying to send an email to my
>> gmail account via the local server on my machine, just to test if this
>> script works.
>>
>> I installed postfix because I read in several places that people have
>> had good luck with that mail program. From what I can tell, postfix is
>> working. I can do:
>>
>> telnet localhost 25
>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to localhost.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> 220 homemade ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
>> ehlo localhost
>> 250-homemade
>> 250-PIPELINING
>> 250-SIZE 10240000
>> 250-VRFY
>> 250-ETRN
>> 250-STARTTLS
>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>> 250-8BITMIME
>> 250 DSN
>>
>> After the php script runs, I type 'mailq' and get the result 'mail
>> queue is empty.' If I check /var/log/mail.log, this is what I see:
>>
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/pickup[5735]: 2A31EA70109: uid=33
>> from=<www-data>
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 2A31EA70109:
>> message-id=<20091022065435.2a31ea70...@homemade>
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109:
>> from=<www-d...@homemade>, size=499, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/error[7999]: 2A31EA70109:
>> to=<x...@gmail.com>, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0/0/0.01,
>> dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (gmail.com)
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/cleanup[7997]: 3217DA7010A:
>> message-id=<20091022065435.3217da70...@homemade>
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: from=<>,
>> size=2095, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/bounce[8000]: 2A31EA70109: sender
>> non-delivery notification: 3217DA7010A
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 2A31EA70109: removed
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/local[8001]: 3217DA7010A:
>> to=<www-d...@homemade>, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0/0.02/0/0.01,
>> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a
>> "$EXTENSION")
>> Oct 21 23:54:35 homemade postfix/qmgr[5736]: 3217DA7010A: removed
>>
>> Any ideas? I am new both to php and postfix. Thanks for any help.
>>
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