New SMTP Servers

[pmcnallyhealer]

Hi all =)

I am wondering, in regards to the new bluehost SMTP servers, will this affect outgoing mail from php scripts using the mail() function?

Thank you =)

Light and Love and Healing to you,
-Patrick Arden McNally

[Early Out]

I wasn't even aware that BH was doing anything with the SMTP servers. Since SMTP is a very old, stable protocol, I'd be very surprised if anything will change at all. Is there some information that leads you to think otherwise?

[Barbouille]

Bluehost sent out an email today to its customers.

[Early Out]

They must be doing it in batches - I haven't gotten any notification.

[Barbouille]

I am still not clear what boxe(s) I should check to enable authetification in Thunderbird.

There is a box for NONE, one for TSL if available, one for TSL and one for SSL

I watched the Bluehost video and this is not covered.

Thanks

[felgall]

I am still not clear what boxe(s) I should check to enable authetification in Thunderbird.

There is a box for NONE, one for TSL if available, one for TSL and one for SSL

I watched the Bluehost video and this is not covered.

Thanks

Mine has "TSL if available" checked (but I usually send via my ISP rather than the hosting for most emails so it has been a while since I hast sent through that particular SMTP setup).

[pmbinky]

Hi all =)

I am wondering, in regards to the new bluehost SMTP servers, will this affect outgoing mail from php scripts using the mail() function?

Thank you =)

Light and Love and Healing to you,
-Patrick Arden McNally

In regards to the original question; I just got off the phone with bluehost support and they told me that, "You have to make sure that you have written SMTP authentication into the scripts."

I guess that means "Get crackin'."

[EricJ]

SMTP and the sendmail function are different things.. I had to make sure but i just made a very simple php script and it went through fine.. The changes to the SMTP servers are just that they require authentication now.. It doesn't mean you have to have ssl enabled.. Authentication is something totally different.. The change was made to prohibit unauthorized mail from being sent through the servers.
Here is the script that i used.. (except i changed the addresses ).. and there is nothing about authentication there.

<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

[Early Out]

The changes to the SMTP servers are just that they require authentication now..

I would have sworn they always did. My email clients have always been configured for user authentication.

[EricJ]

Most of the newer boxes always have.. but they are going back and enabling smtp authentication in waves across all servers. In waves BTW. ~50 at a time.