Admin not getting emails

[jds580s]

I'm beginning the testing phase of a site I'm working on and when I place test orders or fill out the contact us form the emails are getting to the admin.

With my test orders, the customer emails came just fine.

I feel like I must be overlooking some setting.

I've checked Junk Mail folders to see if it was filtered and not there either.
And in Configuration > E-Mail Options I have set "Send Copy of Order Confirmation Emails To" to my email address
Delivery method is PHP

Are there any settings beyond those that are required?

Thanks for any advice!

[DrByte]

If you change your delivery method to SMTP or SMTPAUTH and fill in the SMTP settings, does that help?

There are many more suggestions in the email troubleshooting FAQ: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Email_Problems

[jds580s]

If you change your delivery method to SMTP or SMTPAUTH and fill in the SMTP settings, does that help?

There are many more suggestions in the email troubleshooting FAQ: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Email_Problems

Thanks for the recommendation:
I looked into the SMTP / SMTPauth however the host I am on doesn't use SMTPauth, instead opting for POP before SMTP. I dug around on the wiki and didn't see any mention of support for POP before SMTP, is that correct?

Which leaves me with PHP, sendmail, sendmail-f (I tried Qmail and it didn't work)

I am testing with 3 email accounts, a free hotmail, my work address, and info@ the domain that the site is hosted on. Oddly enough the only one that gets through is the hotmail account. I would have guessed that the hosted email accounts would have been more likely to succeed rather than a free web based service.

So it looks like the PHP mail function is working but it's getting blocked to certain addresses at some stage of the sending process.

[DrByte]

So it looks like the PHP mail function is working but it's getting blocked to certain addresses at some stage of the sending process.

Yes, that's the most common cause of non-delivery.
Sometimes blacklists are the problem.
Sometimes other issues -- many are discussed in the FAQ mentioned.
Your hosting company should be able to assist in some way as well.