Try using the SwiftMailer component; you can use your gmail account as a smarthost for sending out mail. Only downside is that it rewrites the from/reply-to addresses to [email protected].
If that's an issue, you can always get a Google Apps for my Domain account with the domain you plan on using and setup your MX records for Google Apps, but your A records (www, @) to your CakePHP site at your hosting provider. If you don't want to use Google Apps for your mail (its pretty wicked; I'd venture to say that it's better than any crappy Horde or Squirrel Mail interface you typically get from the commodity hosting packages), you can also just register and use a sub-domain with them i.e. mail.whatever.com and create MX records, etc. This way, when you send out mail, it'll go out as [email protected] -- your existing mail is intact, but you now have Google sending out your mail (they have proper PTR records too). I use them for a few apps and haven't had any issues with hotmail.com, yahoo.com etc. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, number9<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am in the process of deploying an application in cakephp and I have > made use of the E-mail component. > > It works great if I am sending E-mail to gmail addresses, but hotmail > addresses do not receive anything at all. With debug set to 2 I am > seeing no error messages, so I'm assuming the problem is receiving. > > I have tried smtp and the "non smtp" way with the same results. > > I understand that they may be getting blocked as spam E-mails and it > can take a while to become trusted (even G-mail has put the E-mails in > spam), but nevertheless it is important that users receive E-mails to > register. > > I am currently testing the site on shared hosting (which probably > doesn't help matters), but is there anything I can do to ensure E- > mails are received by any E-mail address? > > Would I better just using php mail function? I have never had problems > with E-mails not being sent/received when using 3rd party scripts > (e.g. wordpress). I would rather use the cake component if at all > possible as I have it working now. > > Would appreciate any suggestions as I am sure I'm not the only person > this has happened too! > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
