desperate help needed getting email working through site

[AR_1986]

Hi, im trying to get email working from my site, having put the email address i wanted in E-mail Address and E-Mail From nothing happens. I try sending test emails from the contact us and i get nothing. what exactly is the E-Mail From line asking for? its default value is set to osCommerce <root@localhost> what do need to replace that with? I have already changed the value of E-mail address to [email protected] and i even tried pasting the same into the E-mail Address From line but nothing happens. Do i need to use my incoming and outgoing mail server on any of these or is an email address sufficent? Im confused lol thanks for you help people?

 

I know smtp is enabled because i use it for my outlook account. I have checked to see what my smtp settings are and have managed to get the following: -

 

SMTP server: authsmtp.streamline.net

SMTP username: your email address (ie [email protected])

SMTP password: your password

SMTP port: 25

 

but i still dont receive any emails when i send from my site.

 

i have the following settins on the Oscommerce admin: -

 

My Store

 

E-Mail Address- [email protected]

E-Mail From - [email protected]

 

E-Mail Options

 

E-Mail Transport Method - smtp

E-Mail Linefeeds - LF

Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails - true

Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS - true

Send E-Mails - true

 

My webhost server is set to Linux. If thats anhelp

[web-project]

have you tried the sendmail or php mail() option?

[AR_1986]

have you tried the sendmail or php mail() option?

 

Hi, i've tried changing the E-Mail Transport Method to sendmail but nothing happens still.

[BryceJr]

E-Mail Options

 

E-Mail Transport Method - sendmail

E-Mail Linefeeds - LF

Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails - false <--set to false for now

Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS - false

Send E-Mails - true

[AR_1986]

E-Mail Options

 

E-Mail Transport Method - sendmail

E-Mail Linefeeds - LF

Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails - false <--set to false for now

Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS - false

Send E-Mails - true

 

Hi Bryce, i set everything as you said, but as soon as i click submit on the cointact us form it says 'Your enquiry has been successfully sent to the Store Owner' but having checked the email account i told it to go to = [email protected] it isnt there. any ideas? cheers mate.

[Solan]

i have the same problem as you, no emails from my store.. and no order emails to me :o

[web-project]

contact the hosting provider as the issue in the settings of the server.

[AR_1986]

contact the hosting provider as the issue in the settings of the server.

 

I contacted them (streamline.net) and they were so unhelpful. Anyone else ever had this problem/overcome it? im at a complete standstill untill i figure this one out. :)

[bpopelar]

Alex,

 

Start by running the email testing script.

 

Ben

[AR_1986]

Alex,

 

Start by running the email testing script.

 

Ben

 

Hi ya, i have downloaded it but what do i do with the files. Cheers for the help.

[vmf08034]

Hi ya, i have downloaded it but what do i do with the files. Cheers for the help.

 

unzip them

 

copy the file email_test to your catalog directory

 

go to your explorer and type http://www.yourwebname/catalog/email_test

[AR_1986]

unzip them

 

copy the file email_test to your catalog directory

 

go to your explorer and type http://www.yourwebname/catalog/email_test

 

Hi, thanks for your reply. I did as you said and i ran test email. When i try the following on the test_email form nothing happens, i check my outlook account and i haven't recieved anything:-

 

E-Mail From: [email protected]

E-Mail From Address: [email protected]

 

E-Mail To: [email protected]

E-Mail To Address: [email protected]

 

but if i try the following, it works: -

 

E-Mail From: [email protected]

E-Mail From Address: [email protected]

 

E-Mail To: [email protected]

E-Mail To Address: [email protected]

 

in fact i get 2 emails at a time delivered to my hotmail account, one of them goes straight to my inbox and i can see it says from [email protected] and its message reads 'This email has been sent from the email class osCommerce uses.'

 

The other email goes straight to my junk mail folder but says its from [email protected] and its message reads 'This email has been sent from the native php mail() function

 

Is this normal? should there be two emails?

[multimixer]

There is already a topic about here

 

Lets decide where to solve the problem. Why to have 2 topics for the same issue?