m2000bug Posted June 6, 2008 Posted June 6, 2008 Hi there, Im runnging my oscommerce site from on a fasthosts server using windows. I have looked through various topivcs in the forums and and tried to follow the various instructions but nothing has seemed to work. [send email from admin panle, contact us, new account, password reminder etc] In my admin panel I have:- E-Mail Transport Method smtp E-Mail Linefeeds LF Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails true Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS false Send E-Mails true I have looked up fasthosts and they say the following:- Email must be sent to or from an email address hosted by Fasthosts. [which mine obviously is] PHP Use the PHP mail function and set the mail from using the following line of code - replacing $email_from with the correct domain name. * ini_set("sendmail_from", " $email_from "); You need to add a fifth "-f" parameter to the sendmail function. This will set the name of the from address. * mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers, '-f'.$email_from); Trouble is, I am fairly new to all this and have only really used PHP to set up ocCommerce so I have a very limited knowledge. I just don't know what this '-f' is all about, where to put it and what the hell is a fith parameter? Has anyone else got an osCommerce site running on fasthosts with windows and did you manage to get email working? I would greatly appreciate anyones help, this seems to be the only issue holding me back [touch wood] Thanks in advance, Kev.
♥Vger Posted June 6, 2008 Posted June 6, 2008 Fasthosts is absolutely hopeless for hosting an osCommerce website - even if you're on one of their Linux packages you'll have problems. Whatever you do don't pay for their Shared SSL - it doesn't work. If you wish to persevere with Fasthosts then at least get them to transfer your site to a Linux server. Vger
m2000bug Posted June 6, 2008 Author Posted June 6, 2008 Fasthosts is absolutely hopeless for hosting an osCommerce website - even if you're on one of their Linux packages you'll have problems. Whatever you do don't pay for their Shared SSL - it doesn't work. If you wish to persevere with Fasthosts then at least get them to transfer your site to a Linux server. Vger ok looks like im pretty stuffed then!
m2000bug Posted June 10, 2008 Author Posted June 10, 2008 ok looks like im pretty stuffed then! I have transferred to a linus server, is there any other suggestions as to how I can configure the email to work as it should?
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