Strange SMTP Happenings

[Kieran]

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

[Nabeel]

What's the error? Might be that hotmail thinks it's an improper relay or something

[Kieran]

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

[Nabeel]

Is there something up with your SMTP server? I will try sending to a live.com address

[Kieran]

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.

[Nabeel]

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?

[Kieran]

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.

[Kieran]

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).

[Nabeel]

Breaks the registration? Emails are sent after the registration is complete

[Kieran]

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!

[Nabeel]

Means there's a PHP error somewhere - in local.config.php set error_reporting to E_ALL

[Kieran]

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.

[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.

[Nabeel]

Hmm, perhaps there's a missing setting?

[Kieran]

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.