Hey everyone,
For some reason, I can’t send mail through SMTP to hotmail accounts without it returning an error.
I’m not sure if it applies to any other hosting providers but I know that it worked with my own domain account. I’m on beta 870.
Thanks,
Kieran
What’s the error? Might be that hotmail thinks it’s an improper relay or something
Invalid address: You must provide at least one recipient email address.
Confirmation Sent
Thanks for registering for us, you will be notified via email of your registration status.
SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: -----@live.com
Is there something up with your SMTP server? I will try sending to a live.com address
I sent a mail successfully to an email address on the same mail server indicating that the settings are correct.
Whether it’s just hotmail I’m not sure.
Who’s your SMTP provider? Try setting up outlook express to use that SMTP and try sending a mail through there manually and see if it works?
It could also be rejecting it because it thinks it’s spam. Maybe that’s something to research?
I currently use SMTP as provided by my (now paid) web host. I’ll see if google performs and better.
I can log on using Office Outlook 2010.
Now for some reason the emails successfully send with google, but this breaks the registration (weird! looks like I’ve identified the cause of my other error).
Breaks the registration? Emails are sent after the registration is complete
I know, this just adds to the bizzareness of the situation.
For the moment though, my whole site is just white for no apparent reason! Index.php is definitely intact and I can’t see valid reason for this behaviour. I’m on revision 870.
Thanks!
Means there’s a PHP error somewhere - in local.config.php set error_reporting to E_ALL
Well, that was easy
Turned out I had:
Config::Set('EMAIL_SMTP_USE_AUTH', );
Should have been:
Config::Set('EMAIL_SMTP_USE_AUTH', false);
I’ll check out the API and spend a week or two writing a very thorough registration script which I will release if I complete it.
Thanks, kieran.
Right, this whole SMTP thing is really confusing (mail in php has never been on my side :{ )
With the SMTP enabled, I get notifications telling me when a new user registers, new pirep filed etc.
The SMTP Mail Sender (no-reply) and the notification recipient are on the same mail server.
However, registration always fails to deliver the email to the user:
The following recipients failed: (email address)
And also the same happens when approving a PIREP.
I’m pretty sure it’s not blocked by my host as it works with other scripts, just not phpVMS.
Hmm, perhaps there’s a missing setting?
Ive tried it using Google Mail and SSL on my own server.
I get:
The following From address failed: no-reply@liverpoolvirtual.info The following From address failed: no-reply@liverpoolvirtual.info.
The config file is filled out correctly.