On Jan 16, 2008 2:05 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, my host has smtp. But like pretty much ALL hosts these days, they > no longer allow 'relaying' or whatever it's called. > > I can create 1000 email accounts and they'll all work fine. But when a > forum member clicks a button "send email to this (other) user", PHP > mail() sends it with *their* registered return email address, it does > NOT come from an account I've set up. So it gets rejected. Right now I > just have email features turned off. All forum 'business' email works > fine since it all comes from _my_ account. But that really wouldn't > work for people emailing each other. > > Here are some choices:
1. Set up PHP or whatever to invoke people's local email (like a mailto: link will) to send to that user's email address on your hosting site. 2. Set the Sender: field to be a local hosting account for this purpose. Many mailing lists set the From: and Reply-To: to be the individual user's email address, but have to set the Sender: field to be the mailing list, so that the mail will go out successfully. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
