SMTP Authentication

[josephkola]

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it.

 

Here's the problem. I'm having trouble sending mail to some clients. I think it has something to do with the email headers. See below. I installed the smtp contribution.

 

First Question:

During install when I get to

'YOUR DOMAIN/HOSTNAME HERE'

should that be my site name (mysite.com) or my hosting company?

 

Second Question: Shouldn't my return path be my address I'm sending from?

 

Final Question:

I think the part of the header that is "Received: from unknown (HELO mail.opentransfer.com) (192.168.66.101)

by mail3.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 04:37:12 -0000" is blocking the email from certain clients. Is this because of the line "Received From Uknown" ???

 

The email header is as follows:

 

Return-Path: <httpd@web30.opentransfer.com>

Delivered-To: feltedneads.com-info@feltedneads.com

Received: (qmail 10898 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2004 04:37:15 -0000

Received: from unknown (HELO mail.opentransfer.com) (192.168.66.101)

by mail3.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 04:37:12 -0000

Received: (qmail 28559 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2004 18:30:30 -0000

Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.opentransfer.com) (192.168.66.103)

by mailout.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 18:30:30 -0000

Received: (qmail 22527 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2004 04:36:00 -0000

Received: from unknown (HELO web30.opentransfer.com) (64.17.169.1)

by mail2.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 04:36:00 -0000

Received: (from httpd@localhost)

by web30.opentransfer.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id iAP4Oxs20138;

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:24:59 -0600

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:24:59 -0600

Message-Id: <200411250424.iAP4Oxs20138@web30.opentransfer.com>

To: "Joseph Kolasinski" <info@feltedneads.com>

Subject: test with smtp auth

From: melissa@feltedneads.com

MIME-Version: 1.0

X-Mailer: osCommerce

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

 

 

This little problem has been holding me up for about a week now. I 'm just about ready to give up.

 

Thanks for any help,

 

Joseph :angry:

[LMK]

Hi Joseph,

 

I'm right there with you. I installed the smtp contrib, then had to back it out when NONE of the emailing worked. I chatted with my host and they indicated to me that there was no need for me to perform SMTP authentication as the hosting server was setup to take care of that already (?).

 

Anyway, as I look over my configure.php, I see that I'm using

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.mysite.com');

 

Later on I see I referenced the database server (same thing) by it's ip address...

define('DB_SERVER', '216.123.456.789');

Whatever, it works.

 

My only problem... and I think you've hit it on the head... is the email headers.

Here's what my host guys said...

If it's using the mail() function, you don't have to specify an SMTP, since it's a

default.

 

Regarding the "spam" flag, it's likely due to not having the correct headers.? Does

the spam flag give you any indication of why it was triggered?

 

By the way, the only emails that aren't working at this point are the ones I create in the admin>tools section... that is the "send email" and "newsletters' forms.

 

When I say not working, I mean that although the emails do indeed get sent and are received... they are received directly into junk. Hmmm. Like you said, probably because of the "Unknown" sender.

 

Too bad... almost there though. If I get a break-through with my hosts, I will post it.

 

L.

Edited November 25, 2004 by LMK

[zaxxon]

seems likely that its blocked cuz you are using opentransfer.com they are often black listed as they are notorious for letting spammers use their services. my advice is get rid of them

......though this is an old post...i imagine you had it sorted ages ago