Emails only send to Webbased addresses (cant find solution)

**ugleee** · 04-20-2004, 08:32 AM

Confirmation emails, mail sent from Admin control panel to customers, new account emails, etc all are not being sent to ISP email addresses, but deliver fine to web based email accounts e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.

I have found several posts and bug posts that state similar problems, most of them ending up finding a solution that involves a problem with their webhost and the configuration of the A records or MX records. I dont know much about that, but I tried calling godaddy (they are hosting my account for now) and they said everything was set up fine from their end. I would normally believe this except that many other posters said that after repeatedly being told it wasn't a server side problem by their webhosts, that they found out eventually that it indeed was a configuration problem.

The problem is that no one lists the actual problem and I don't know exactly what to tell my webhost.

Here is the email header from the mail successfully sent to yahoo mail account.

X-Apparently-To: ugleee@yahoo.com via 216.136.174.16; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:34:39 -0700
Return-Path: <nobody@linhostssl01.mesa1.secureserver.net>
Received: from 64.202.165.63 (HELO smtpout-1-1b.secureserver.net) (64.202.165.63) by mta103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:34:39 -0700
Received: (qmail 5887 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2004 08:34:39 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO linhostssl01.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.163.220) by smtpout-1-1b.secureserver.net with SMTP; 20 Apr 2004 08:34:39 -0000
Received: from linhostssl01.mesa1.secureserver.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by linhostssl01.mesa1.secureserver.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3K8eo2h014027 for <ugleee@yahoo.com>; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:40:50 -0700
Received: (from nobody@localhost) by linhostssl01.mesa1.secureserver.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i3K8eo8u014025; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:40:50 -0700
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:40:50 -0700
Message-Id: <200404200840.i3K8eo8u014025@linhostssl01.mesa1 .secureserver.net>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
John Consiglio

**jpf** · 04-20-2004, 09:17 AM

from nobody@localhost
This is your problem..... Can you spell SPAM FILTER.....

**ugleee** · 04-20-2004, 09:32 AM

Stupid novice question, how do I change that?

**jpf** · 04-20-2004, 09:49 AM

in your Admin (or chage via your MySQL admin tools)

Change in Configuration:
'E-Mail From' which controls the 'EMAIL_FROM' variable which is 'The e-mail address used in (sent) e-mails'

Check all email address in the store - that they are all vaild. (There is a few in there for various things....)