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CI email library problem when users input gmail or hotmail address as their email.

I have setup a mailer with the CI email library that that accepts users name, email, subject and message then emails it to myself.

The problem Im having is when a gmail or hotmail account are inputted as the users email the message isn't delivered.
When I add an "x" eg [email protected] before the mail is sent it gets delivered. So it seems either CI or Godaddy dont like relaying gmail or hotmail info...

I have tried using gmail smpt and godaddys sendmail with same results.

No debug errors.

Lots of hair pulling as this is very frustrating.

Any ideas?

If you are attempting to use that persons email address as the FROM email address, then you are correct in that the servers will have issues sending it (it looks a lot like spam impersonating an account).

You will have better luck looking into using that email as the REPLY-TO email, and sending the email FROM something like "[email protected]".

A bit more info on how you've setup the library would help debug.

You nailed it dude!

Thanks a lot.

The "reply-to" works with whatever I try.
Too bad about the "from" having to be hard coded but I can live with it.

Hehe, I had a lot of reading up on email providers when I did the backend for enote.com ... they are a bunch of finicky setups... definitely worse then the browsers. Glad it helped for something in the long run.

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