Many thanks for the replies - your comments were exceptionally helpful. Strangely enough, I checked the hotmail E-mail account earlier and all (or the majority of E-mails) that I had sent out yesterday had arrived, but 24 hours later than they should have. I tried registering another E-mail account and the E-mails look as if they are arriving OK now (although in the junk folder). I have no idea what was going on at microsoft's end, perhaps they delayed them because it was a new domain name or something?
As I said before this server was sending mails OK on other scripts (on a different domain name) so I was surprised when these didn't. I will keep an eye on it because it is clearly not reliable and there are issues there. I like the google apps suggestion so will probably look to implement that - this blog post looks a good start: http://marcgrabanski.com/article/hotmail-email-filtering-and-spf On Jul 10, 10:22 pm, GravyFace <[email protected]> wrote: > I should note that you can usually use your ISP as a smarthost too but > there's usually a limit to the number of messages you can send out per > day. > > Another option if you have a real mail server somewhere is to get a > Postini account. It's $12/year per user. With each user, however, > you can setup unlimited aliases (and no, it doesn't affect where the > mail actually gets routed) so if you need sales@, info@, support@, > etc. those could all be aliases under the same account. > > You get gmail quality spam filtering (it's what gmail uses) plus, you > can use them as a smarthost -- I've NEVER had any mail fail to get > delivered (I've setup Postini for dozens of Exchange clients of mine) > with proper SPF records and Postini as the smarthost. > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:14 PM, GravyFace<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
