Godaddy email problems...

[Chuckl]

Permissions etc are usually set on a per website/vhost basis in a hosted environment.

[steveo3279]

Guess I'll be calling them. Everything is automated at GoDaddy so I'm wondering why there would be a difference/permission change? Both accounts are on the exact same hosting plan. Odd, very odd.

Chuck do you have an AOL IM or MSN we could chat?

[steveo3279]

One last thing...

I am able to send mail via outlook express using their smtpout server and using my authentication credentials, just can't do that in ZenCart...would that make any difference?

Thanks,
Steve

[DrByte]

I am able to send mail via outlook express using their smtpout server and using my authentication credentials, just can't do that in ZenCart...would that make any difference?

That's an important fact to know. However, your computer and your webserver are each separate computers. Yours is accessing their network from an external location. The webserver is accessing it from another location, perhaps internal. Maybe they're just not allowing access from your webserver to your mailserver ... and don't know it.

[steveo3279]

I was told by them that the server settings were exactly the same.

They did say to make sure the sendmail path needs to be set to: /usr/sbin/sendmail
and use PHP

Where do I go to make sure that is set correctly?

Thanks,
Steve

[DrByte]

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They did say to make sure the sendmail path needs to be set to: /usr/sbin/sendmail
and use PHP

Where do I go to make sure that is set correctly?

If you tell Zen Cart to use "PHP" as the email transport method, then it will use "whatever the server administrator has configured PHP to use for sending email" ... meaning it's up to "them" to make sure PHP is configured properly ... meaning ... don't worry about the sendmail path.

[Chuckl]

Hmm, the 'take two aspirins and call me in the morning response. The simplest way to test is to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator.

If you take the following code, and paste it into a file, call it mailtest.php or something and edit it to use real email addresses. Then copy it into the main folder of your site, and open it with a browser, with http://www.yourdomain.com/mailtest.php

<?php
$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

It is simply a small piece of PHP code calling the mail() function. If that works, then you have some broken files or similar in your Zen Cart install. If not, your hosts are lying through their teeth.