Problem with certain email address's

[Shadowing]

Hey guys im having a issue. I think the problem is my mail server though but I want to just double confirm by asking a question here.

I notice i cant send a email to a .de or a email like [email protected]

so i inserted this email address into my account at phpfreaks.com which uses SMF forum also and it worked. So they can send to that email but I cant. Which narrows it down to being a problem with my mail server unless the people at php freaks did a edit with SMF software.

so my question is Can i rule this out of being a SFM issue. cause i also cant send eamils using the php function mail() to certain emails.

i can send email to all major emails hotmail,yahoo,gmail etc...

[Orangine]

cause i also cant send eamils using the php function mail() to certain emails.

SMF uses mail()

[Arantor]

SMF uses mail() by default but can also use SMTP if you give it the details.

[Shadowing]

so my problem is probably my mail server then lol. I'm using POSTFIX for my mail server

Do you think it would matter if [email protected] cant be replied back too? or something

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$to = "[email protected]";
    $from = "[email protected]";
    $subject = "Stargate System Lords";

    $message = "Your alerts are now set up for Stargate System Lords";
   
    $headers = '';
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Stargate System Lords <$from>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-to: $from\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: $from\n";
$headers .= "Message-ID: <" . md5(uniqid(time())) . "@" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ">\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Date: " . date('r', time()) . "\n";
   
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

[Arantor]

Do *any* messages get sent via SMF?

[Shadowing]

ya i can send to hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc

[Arantor]

So what, specifically isn't working?

[Shadowing]

I cant send to address's like

[email protected]
[email protected]


I thought i had postfix for my mail server but apparently not
any idea how to tell what mail server im running?
I'm using linux Ubuntu

[Arantor]

If you can send to some and you know that works, it's nothing to do with your mail server itself - it's sending some out so it must fundamentally be working.

Do you know for certain the addresses are correct? Do you know for certain that it's not getting there and being stuck in spam?

[Shadowing]

ya the address's work i can send to them using hotmail. Also i went to phpfreaks.com which also uses SMF forum and i changed my email to [email protected]
on my account their and in the process of doing that they sent a email to the address and it sent just fine

no idea on the spam thing. if phpfreaks can send it though using smf forum shouldnt I beable too?

[Colin]

ya the address's work i can send to them using hotmail. Also i went to phpfreaks.com which also uses SMF forum and i changed my email to [email protected]
on my account their and in the process of doing that they sent a email to the address and it sent just fine

no idea on the spam thing. if phpfreaks can send it though using smf forum shouldnt I beable too?

No... The spam filters don't consider the forum software the email is being sent from 

[Shadowing]

ya i know but i read the php manual and people place headers and stuff to fix issues like this.
what do spam filters consider?

[Shadowing]

crap this problem is driving me crazy lol.

just wish i knew what mail server i was even using. A friend set up for me several months back. I know a little linux now though.

[Colin]

Who are you hosted with?

[Shadowing]

using linode. setup on a virtual server
im using Ubuntu

there must a dir i can check or a command i can type in to figure out what mail server im using

[Arantor]

No... The spam filters don't consider the forum software the email is being sent from 

Some do, actually. The sending header clearly identifies that it's coming from SMF and some spam filters do actually blacklist it for that reason.

ya i know but i read the php manual and people place headers and stuff to fix issues like this.
what do spam filters consider?

All sorts of things - everyone does things differently.

Probably the single biggest one, though, is whether the domain you're sending email from is the domain of the email address.

For example if your site is mysite.com but the email is addressed from [email protected] it will very likely be eaten by spam filters.

[Shadowing]

my domain is stargatesystemlords.com

and the address is [email protected]

[Arantor]

And is stargatesystemlords.com set up to receive email?

[Shadowing]

I'm not sure. I read someone say in the php manual on comments that it could be the reason this is happening.

I sent a email to [email protected] just now and didnt get a failure using gmail

tried to setup outlook express for the account but im not 100 percent sure what the password is to the  mail account. I think the ip address is failing when outlook express tries to look it up

[Arantor]

Give it an hour or so and see if you then get a failure.