Martyn334 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 is it me or is it just hotmail??? I tested it out my self, and i doesnt seem to be working? i own my server, i checked everything, and everything is up ok, i even rebooted the server just to make sure 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 i dont know what it is, but no matter how perfectly i have my mail servers setup, hotmail and gmail seem to be random about delivering them. Anyone else have these issues? I havent done the spf thing, but i really think those are overkill and unpractical. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I've sent in a ticket already that may have something to do with this. I'm not sure, but I think WHMCS is trying to send emails with no recipient. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 are you using smtp? thats the only method you should use when sending mail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 are you using smtp? thats the only method you should use when sending mail. Hey, I use the PHPMail but I'm on a totaly different support system and it works fine From, Adam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 might work fine, but its not best as it will be sending emails from nobody@hostname.com. If your not the server admin or you are the server admin and other people are using phpmail or sendmail in that way, then its going to be pretty annoying to get all the bouncebacks. Maybe I am wrong. I easily could be as I dont manage my servers personally. I have other people for that. =P 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 might work fine, but its not best as it will be sending emails from nobody@hostname.com. If your not the server admin or you are the server admin and other people are using phpmail or sendmail in that way, then its going to be pretty annoying to get all the bouncebacks. Maybe I am wrong. I easily could be as I dont manage my servers personally. I have other people for that. =P Hey, Not really, I mean you can send emails so it comes out like person@domain.com the nobody is used only when its not defined in the php script or what ever you have set to the default in the php.ini My understanding of piping is something like this, You setup a forwarder for the email account you want your script to pull from, (support@domain.com) when some ones sends an email over to support@domain.com since you added the forwarder it sends the requested email over to your script. The script then does its magic and sends it back out to what ever you have set using the From headers. This happens again for each email/reply to that piped email. So even if the email does get bounced back since it was sent from the From header in PHP it gets piped or emailed back over to the script. As in this case, make sure you have done everything right and setup a forwarder for your email and assigned it in WHMCS. Other then that just open a ticket with WHMCS as it could be a number of things that could cause this problem.... From, Adam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 i was talking about in general about phpmail and sendmail, not really piping, which piping would have been the correct topic. =P I really think you will see a difference in your email header if you send an email through smtp versus just plain phpmail with no authentication. Give it a try. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn334 Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 might work fine, but its not best as it will be sending emails from nobody@hostname.com. If your not the server admin or you are the server admin and other people are using phpmail or sendmail in that way, then its going to be pretty annoying to get all the bouncebacks. Maybe I am wrong. I easily could be as I dont manage my servers personally. I have other people for that. =PYou can change that email in the config - support ticket section. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn334 Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 and i dont mean emails are getting delayed, they not being recieved at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Hey, I would go ahead and open up a support ticket, http://support.whmcs.com/submitticket.php As stated in my other post, a number of things could cause this, from your server to adding spaces in the forwarding area... From, Adam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I just did a test phpmail email and if you look at the top of the header, you will see: Return-path: <nobody@hostname> (this varies per server) if your using smtp, you will see the actual email address that is sending it. Now, yes, when sending with phpmail, you will see the From address as whatever you set it as, but that can always be spoofed anyway. And a lot of spam filters dont like it. They want the return path and the from address to be the same. Its also a good idea to make sure your A record for your domains mailserver, aka mail.domain.com is the same as your servers general ip. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Yep, now that i have played with it more, i think there is definitely a bug with whmcs and phpmail. i for one never even got the email at my other address, i just got the bcc as admin. It also didnt show up in my email log. I will just continue to use smtp and i recommend you to do the same. Bug should definitely be submitted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS CEO Matt Posted November 4, 2006 WHMCS CEO Share Posted November 4, 2006 There are no bugs with the PHP Mail() option in WHMCS. Free email providers such as Hotmail and Yahoo are known to block emails from PHP scripts awith the nobody header and even Gmail is starting to do it. You should always use the SMTP option if possible but PHP Mail() will work just fine to most email addresses. Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn334 Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 There are no bugs with the PHP Mail() option in WHMCS. Free email providers such as Hotmail and Yahoo are known to block emails from PHP scripts awith the nobody header and even Gmail is starting to do it. You should always use the SMTP option if possible but PHP Mail() will work just fine to most email addresses. Matt i do use the smtp option, and emails are not being recieved via support tickets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS CEO Matt Posted November 7, 2006 WHMCS CEO Share Posted November 7, 2006 Are you sure you have the SMTP details configured correctly? If they are correct, the email must be getting sent. Can you check junk folders of your email account? Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn334 Posted December 9, 2006 Author Share Posted December 9, 2006 Are you sure you have the SMTP details configured correctly? If they are correct, the email must be getting sent. Can you check junk folders of your email account? Matt no junk filter enabled. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 are you sure you have your pipe fwds setup correctly in cpanel mail setttings? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn334 Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 are you sure you have your pipe fwds setup correctly in cpanel mail setttings?yes as stated works perfectly, just doesnt with hotmail can anyone help me, when i try to add my url to my sigg. i get example: http://www.mydomain.com it turns it self into this code <a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com\'>http://www.mydomain.com\">http://www.mydomain.com</a>'>http://www.mydomain.com</a> and then i get http://www.mydomain.com\'>http://www.mydomain.com\">http://www.mydomain.com with the first url not working, and the second one working.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS CEO Matt Posted December 10, 2006 WHMCS CEO Share Posted December 10, 2006 You don't need to put the code to make it a link. WHMCS will automatically parse it into a link along with all other links in the ticket reply. Matt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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