Why doesn't my PHP email forum work with any other sender besides my SMTP email account?
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February 1st, 2011
My website, www.LPCstudents.com, hosted with www.freehostia.com, has an “Email this person” button, but the only time the email ever goes through is if I put into the “Your email” section MY SMTP mail account that is on the server (so it sends an email to itself). What’s wrong?
This is the PHP page: http://goo.gl/Dk1wd
The site is freeware: http://market.matterdaddy.com/
I would include the code, but I really don’t know what to include.
This is a classifieds type website (like craigslist), but for my College to help students buy and sell books to each other. Please help!
-Ben
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thanks, I tried that but just got “request timed out”
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Anyways, your answer lead me to finding the real answer.. so on freehostia.com I found a “rule” for making PHP email forums:
“Make sure that the e-mail account of either the recipient or the sender of the message is hosted here [...]”
So my PHP email forum on the classifieds website (www.LPCstudents.com) should work like this,
A visiter puts up an ad with their email address (recipient) and a customer fills out their email in the forum (sender).
Would this usually work with PHP? Is this not possible with freehostia.com? Would this work on other host providers? Or is there another way to follow the below and still get the same results: visiter posts the ad (recipient) and the customer replies (sender).
Well thanks, I guess I’ll have to do the following.
Because my host requires that one of the email’s, either the (recipient) or (sender), is in my host account I will try to change the code.
In the “email this person” button the “your email” will be hidden with a value = myhostemail. The customer will then have to add contact info in the email.
Thanks anyways,
ben
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