send mail to gmail accnt? imap functions

[mrweirdo]

Hello I'm having a problem trying to send email to email addresses other then addresses on the server Im on via a php script. Basicly what Im trying to do is make a simple script that sends an email to my gmail account when its run.

here it is below email addresses edited for security of course.

<?
// mail acount settings
$server="{localhost/imap}";
$email = "[e-mail]";
$password = "*****";

$link=imap_open($server,$email,$password);
$headers=imap_headers($link);

$to = "[e-mail]";
$hders = "From: $email";
$subject = "dude this is cool";
$msg = " this is a test of our email system";
imap_mail($to, $subject, $msg, $hders);

imap_close($link);
echo 'mail has been sent to ' . $to . '';

?>

If I run the script and I never get anything showing up at gmail. but if I change the recieving address to an email account on the server i run the script on I will get an email it its account so I know the script does send something. Ive tried using hotmail. yahoo, comcast, even accounts on other servers to no avail non ever get an email(even in spam folders). Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[sys4dm1n]

maybe gmail has it configured so only clients and webmail accounts could send email -- and that it deletes all incoming mail from mail type forms for security and spam purposes.

[mrweirdo]

well it wasnt that actualy. What I wound up doing is using pear to conect to a different mail server provided by my isp(comcast) and then send the email to gmail and it worked fine. So it seems something screwed up on my webhosts mailserver settings that is causing it to get blocked when i send outside.

I noticed if i used mail(); with the -f switch in it to redirect direct failed mail atempts to an email account on the server. It noticed that in the bounced email i would get in that inbox it mentioned that gmail.com was an unresovable domain name. Same with sending to hotmail.

So whatever at least i got it working. Thanks for the reply 🙂