mail() problem - not working with POP address???

[glambert]

Hey everyone,

I've been trying stuff for a while now, and I just can't find a way to way to fix it.

I have this function to send email to a list of email contained in a MySQL database. Here it is:

set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort();

$send_to = array();

// If its a test, send only to admin's email
if ( isset($test) )
{
    $send_to[] = $config['admin_email'];
}
// Else send to all registered users
else
{
    $newsletter_data = db_select("SELECT `newsletter_email` FROM `newsletter`");
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($newsletter_data); $i++)
    {
         $send_to[] = $newsletter_data[$i]['newsletter_email'];
    }
}

// Fix strings to send in nice HTML
$message = str_replace(array("&gt;", "&lt;", "\&quot;", "&amp;"), array('>', '<', '"', '&'), $message);

// Check if the user chose TEXT ONLY or HTML.
if ($type_value == 'html')
{
    $message = stripslashes($message);
}
else
{
    $message = '<font face="arial, verdana, helvetica" size="2">' . stripslashes(nl2br($message)) . '</font>';
}

// Prepare message for the newsletter
$subject = stripslashes($subject);
$object = $config['newsletter_title'] . ' (' . date("m.d.y") . '): ' . $subject;
$message = $message . "<br><br>";

// Go through all email in $send_to array and send newsletter
for ($i = 0; $i < count($send_to); $i++)
{
    // Add unregister message at the bottom of the message
    $unregister_message = '<br><hr align="left" width="150" size="1" noshade><a href="http://www.hymnfromabove.com/~glambert/prod/adviso/desabonnement.php?email=' . $send_to[$i] . '">Cliquez ici pour vous désabonnez</a>';

    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
    $headers .= "From: \"" . $config['newsletter_sender'] . "\" < " . $config['newsletter_email'] . " >\n";
    $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";
    $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP / ".phpversion()."\n";

    mail("<" . $send_to[$i] . ">", $object, $message . $unregister_message, $headers);
} 

Did I miss something? Is something wrong in my code? Or is it possible that my Outlook Express's configuration is ****ed? I've tried with 2 different POP (from 2 diff. ISP) and they don't work.

The mail() function works with hotmail and other free ISP.

PLEASE help a poor soul!

Thanks

[glambert]

NOTE: I've put my script on another server and now it works fine for the POP address ...

Could it be a PHP setting on my server that makes this?

Please help me!

P.S - Do you think this script could handle, lets say, a 10 000 subscriber newsletter send?

[shoebox]

In troubleshooting this you may find it more useful to use mail(); by itself as a test without any special headers or anything.. and see if it will send to the pop addresses.

If you say it works on another php host then, yes, it sounds like you may have a configuration problem.

[glambert]

Ok, even weirder now:

On server #1 : NOT the same server as my POP account. When I send a newsletter to lets say 50 people and my POP address is in the list, it successfully gets to all ISPs (hotmail, yahoo etc.) but NOT to my POP.

On server #2 : SAME server as my POP account. When I send a newsletter to the same amount of people with in the list my POP account and some hotmail / fowarding accounts of mine, it ONLY gets to the POP account and NOT the hotmail/fowarding ones ...

What could possibly do that? I've been researching a long time for this and haven't found anything. Please help I'm getting desperate! Thanks!