I wasn’t imagining that your RoadRunner mail was going through
GoDaddy. But if you send an e-mail to
postmaster(at)highnoontoastmasters.com, GoDaddy (by default) will
probably handle it for you, even if all they do is forward it on to you.
Because of all the spam-bots and zombie PCs out there, it is
increasingly hard to send mail from a script and have it get anywhere.
Most ISPs (yours included) will probably reject any message where the
sending address is not “real”. How they define that is a very slippery
question, but your chances can be improved by following these rules:
If you’re sending from a server somewhere, make sure that server has a
“Reverse DNS” address, and that it makes sense for the domain you are
sending from. So if you are sending an e-mail from auto(at)example.org
(I’m using the (at) construction here to get around the Web forum’s
auto-filters, not because that’s what I think you would be using as an
address), then make sure that a lookup of your server’s IP returns
somemachine.example.org as the machine name. Failing that, make sure
that the sending address you use is within the same domain as the
machine name for your server.
Further, if you’re sending from the example.org domain, from the
somemachine.example.org server, make sure that somemachine.example.org
is set as one of your mailservers. Whomever manages your DNS will need
to add an MX record for somemachine.example.org, even if that’s not
the machine that handles most of the mail for that domain. Just make
sure that it HAS an MX record, even if the priority is set really
really low.
Now if you were following my example quite literally, and you decided
to set the script to send mail TO yourself as if it was sent BY
yourself (at your rr account), then realize that RoadRunner would
probably take one look at that, realize it didn’t originate from one
of their “blessed” mail servers, and dump it in the trash without even
looking at it twice.
Walter
On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Al wrote:
Go Daddy doesn’t host my mail. Still haven’t received an email after
hitting submit. Does GD need to be PHP friendly for the form to work
or is that independent of them? I am thinking there is soemthing I
need to do in my control panel with them.
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