my website cannot send emails.

[tofm2]

Hello

My website cannot send e-mails (registration, contacts etc..) although all settings seem to be correct. In fact, mail sending is crucial for my website activity (new users registration). So, inside my phpbb settings, mail sending is, of course and first of all made possible.

On a second hand, there is no difference in mail sending wether I use php mail sending function (it is called 'mail', right ?) or if I use the smtp sender server attached to my domain name (mail.mydomain.com, yes I have put this to port 26 instead of 25)

in fact my website did never send ANY e-mail.

My domain is not registered at bluehost, but at Gandi, but my Gandi's settings redirect all DNS to point to ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com

But another troubling point is that despite website based email sending is not possible, client based e-mail sending is perfectly possible WITH SMTP (kmail client) and if I try tu reuse kmail settings inside my website, nothing works.

maybe something needs to be properly configured or maybe did I forget something.

Thanks for help

[interfaceman]

if you using programming on site you must know mail server path.

[tofm2]

if you using programming on site you must know mail server path.

in fact, I do not program on my site, just use phpbb3 forum script, but email sending, although well configured still remains silent...

Is smtp port 25 opened for accessing smtp server placed OUTSIDE of bluehost.com server ?? (my smtp server is at gandi.net, and runs either on port 25 or on port 587)

In the case I would like to do some php mail() function access, do I have to specify the SENDMAIL path ?? (in bluehost, it is /usr/sbin/sendmail)

Do I have to use sendmail or not ? I mean if I want to php mail() something, do I have to specify sendmail path ??

what is php mail() function name

help me, I am lost.:confused::confused::confused::confused:

[felgall]

Have you created an email account to send the emails from?

[tofm2]

Have you created an email account to send the emails from?

certainly, and this account works from outlook express on my personnal computer