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Hi folks,
The problem I'm having a problem is that emails sent from geeklog (such as broadcasts emails to logged-in users or new user passwords) are not being received by certain domains. Problem domains include addresses at panix.com, navisite.com and excite.com but yahoo and mit.edu addresses seem fine. I'm guessing that this is getting clobbered by aggressive spam filters, but on panix where I have a shell account, it's being handled server side since I don't see any record of the email in my local procmail logs. Here are the headers from a message that made it to yahoo:


netelan.com is the hosting machine. I'm assuming that "from apache@localhost" is the problem (and will be for any usage of PHP mail()), but unfortunately, I don't have access to php.ini on the host machine, and even if I did, it's shared by several domains. Is there any workaround for this? Or perhaps there's another explanation for the problem I'm seeing?


Thanks for any help or insight,


-S

its probably because the e-mail address in config.php is not right, and needs to be changed to your e-mail address.

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Sorry for not posting the full header, I'm just doing a trial installation at this point so I didn't want any personally identifying information posted.

But to the point, the from line is ok:


So I don't think that's the problem.
Unless there are other variables that I need to set besides $_CONF['site_mail']. I originally assumed $_DB_host needed to be set, but the MySQL database host is named "localhost " and when I tried using [mydomain], geeklog couldn't access the database.


-S

I can't offer an immediate solution, but Geeklog 1.3.9 (once it's done ...) will use PEAR's Mail class, so that you can chose whether to send email via SMTP, sendmail, or PHP's mail function.

That code is already in CVS, but it requires quite a few changes all over the place, so I don't think it's worth the effort of back-porting it to 1.3.8 ...

bye, Dirk