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Outgoing email - no message when failure

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Øivind Gulbrandsen

Sunday 20 March 2005 2:40:32 pm

If I send an email to f.ex. a nonexistent adresss from my ordinary email client I always get a message back that the email did not come through.

When sending emails from ez-publish (I use the mailinglist extension) I get no such messages when the email-sending does not succeed. That is a big problem because I can not be sure that my emails has been received...

Any solutions?

(I use the Sendmail option, SMTP does not work).

Best regards,
Øivind G.

Łukasz Serwatka

Wednesday 23 March 2005 1:20:28 am

Hi Øivind,

Check in e-mail source if header Return-Path is correct. This header is uses to notify sender about errors with delivering.

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Øivind Gulbrandsen

Friday 25 March 2005 1:41:29 am

Thanks for answer.

I have checked the Return-path - and that is the one which is wrong (is set to a standard path from the service provider).

(Have now got the SMTP to work - so I have tested both SMTP and sendmail).

How can I set the Return-path to webmasters email address??? (Seems not affected by the AdminEmail or EmailSender settings in site.ini).

I am using release 3.4.2

Øivind

Øivind Gulbrandsen

Sunday 03 April 2005 1:19:58 pm

Nobody with experience or an idea on how to set the return-path???

Łukasz Serwatka

Sunday 03 April 2005 10:14:00 pm

Hi Øivind,

You will have to manualy add this header in mailinglist code.

This extension probadly uses lib/ezutils/classes/ezsmtp.php

In this file you find "Function which handles sending the mail. " with one of paramteres is "headers - Indexed array of headers, one header per array entry "

I hope it will help.

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Øivind Gulbrandsen

Monday 04 April 2005 2:03:10 am

Thanks.

I have looked at some of the programs - even if I am not a PHP programmer... For me it seems that it is the ezMail program that is used. The "setReceiver" function etc is called from the mailinglist program. In ezMail it is a function called setExtraHeaders, which I would presume is for the return-path etc. So I tried to modify the mailinglist program:

$mail = new eZMail();
$mail->setReceiver($email);
$mail->setSender($params['from']);
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$mail->setBody($result);
$mail->setExtraHeaders(array('Return-path','[email protected]')); (this line is new...)
$mailResult = eZMailTransport::send($mail);

The program works - but I still do not get a new return-path in my email.

Any suggestions?

Łukasz Serwatka

Monday 04 April 2005 2:16:56 am

Hi,

Try with

$mail->setExtraHeader('Return-path','[email protected]');

Which mailserver do you uses?

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Øivind Gulbrandsen

Monday 04 April 2005 2:54:45 am

Same result...

My mailserver is mail.hornet.no.

Sendmail and SMTP is both working.