PHP Mail Function not working

[Xioyn]

Hello,

I searched the forums and found this thread and I am having a similar problem but his solution will not work for me.http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...light=mail+php
postqueue -p

root@server1:~# postqueue -p
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
62D7D1E4EE 817 Sun Aug 28 23:20:59 www-data@server1.example.com
(connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.143.27]:25: Connection timed out)
robertstanday@gmail.com

B18E51E4EB 851 Sat Aug 27 23:59:06 www-data@server1.example.com
(connect to example.com[192.0.43.10]:25: Connection timed out)
someone@example.com

01B0C1E4ED 851 Sun Aug 28 00:44:36 www-data@server1.example.com
(connect to example.com[192.0.43.10]:25: Connection timed out)
someone@example.com

-- 4 Kbytes in 3 Requests.

dig mx robertday.ca

root@server1:~# dig mx robertday.ca

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> mx robertday.ca
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18685
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;robertday.ca. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
robertday.ca. 629 IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net.
robertday.ca. 629 IN MX 10 mailstore1.secureserver.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mailstore1.secureserver.net. 55 IN A 72.167.238.201
smtp.secureserver.net. 280 IN A 216.69.186.201

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 64.59.160.13#53(64.59.160.13)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 29 11:13:34 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 126

Now then is this because I haven't set mail up for this website? Or because I named the server server1.example.com

Or is it something else? I tried changing the dns zone on godaddy but it won't accept just my ip address.

Should I reinstall the server with a better name anyway?

[till]

Or because I named the server server1.example.com

Thats the problem. You should have replaced server1.example.com with the real name of your server during installation. To fix that, edit the files:

/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname
/etc/mailname
/etc/postfix/main.cf

and replace the hostname with the real hostname of your server, e.g. server1.robertday.ca and make sure that server1.robertday.ca exists as dns A-Record in DNS which points to the IP address of your server.

[Xioyn]

Okay that worked for 1 email it went into my spam but now it won't send another.
I have attached a screenshot of my GoDaddy DNS manager with the black smudge being the static IP for the server.

Here are postqueue -p and dig mx robertday.ca again.

root@server1:~# postqueue -p
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
4CF461E4EF 836 Tue Aug 30 10:17:20 www-data@server1.robertday.ca
(connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.143.27]:25: Connection timed out)
robertstanday@gmail.com

B18E51E4EB 851 Sat Aug 27 23:59:06 www-data@server1.example.com
(connect to example.com[192.0.43.10]:25: Connection timed out)
someone@example.com

01B0C1E4ED 851 Sun Aug 28 00:44:36 www-data@server1.example.com
(connect to example.com[192.0.43.10]:25: Connection timed out)
someone@example.com

-- 4 Kbytes in 3 Requests.

root@server1:~# dig mx robertday.ca

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> mx robertday.ca
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39603
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;robertday.ca. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
robertday.ca. 3600 IN MX 10 mailstore1.secureserver.net.
robertday.ca. 3600 IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mailstore1.secureserver.net. 89 IN A 72.167.238.201
smtp.secureserver.net. 56 IN A 72.167.238.201

;; Query time: 175 msec
;; SERVER: 64.59.160.13#53(64.59.160.13)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 31 23:44:32 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 126

How do I go about removing mail from the queue?

[Ben]

If i get this right, you are sending mails with in this case a php script, right?

Because looking at the queue message this looks for me like your server does not reach the destination mailserver, as the connections times out.
Did you check your message log for maybe dropped outbound connections?
You may test this via

telnet alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25

If you see any response, just enter "quit" and hit enter.

Does sending mails to other recipients work for you? Eventhough I think it does not make a difference, did you try sending to the same thing just via the mail command.

Regarding the queue handling, here's a short manual:

#Delete the whole queue:
postsuper -d ALL

#Delete single mails - List quee first and copy the ID of the specific mail:
mailq | less
#delete the specific mail
postsuper -d <QUEUEID>

#Delete mails from or to a specific mailadress:
mailq | tail +2 | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } / user@domain\.tld$/ { print $1 } ' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d -

[Xioyn]

I just remembered that I am behind a router which is probably the cause of my problems.

Nvm about the ports they are

TCP:20,21,22,25,53,80,110,143,443,3306,8080,8081,1 0000
UDP:53,3306

Taken from the ISP Config Firewall

[falko]

If you are on a dynamic IP, you're most likely blacklisted (please check http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx ), and you should set up relaying: http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix_re...her_mailserver