Hey Everyone,
I’ve got a bit of a pickle. Basically I have an few eForms setup that have worked perfectly until the other day. Now suddenly they have started to refuse to send emails to address’s at the sites domain. However if I change the send to address to my email address which is on a different domain everything works fine. My first thought was that the emails on the original domain were broken but that theory doesn’t work because I can still send emails to them and they receive them. So any ideas?
Thanks,
Michael
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Is the domain of your email address that still works is on the same host as your site with the scripts?
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I asked, because often hosting will disable the php mail() function from sending to any other server than itself; so usually having email go to your site’s default email will work (or to your personal email if it’s on the same server as your site), while sending to others outside the server won’t.
That was my best shot...
Well, actually, I ran across something that might well make this fail just yesterday. It seems both servers are configured to practice "greylisting". On top of this server2 immediately sends back to server1 to validate the email address of the sender. Now when server2 sends the validation enquiry to server1, server1, as part of its greylisting policy, returns a "mailbox busy, try again later" error message. Server2 is looking for a "user ok" message, and aborts with a "bad user validation" error. So server1 and server2 can never exchange mail.
ok thanks for trying, looks like it is doing the opposite of what’s expected then
I found the problem, turns out they installed some junk mail filtering software which they didn’t bother to mention. What a waste of 4 hours
