David Powers Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP training from the source mail connector problem

Report · Jan 23, 2013

Hello,

first I will say great work david this is great book, and i found everything i neede in it.

I have one problem.

I have managed to get to lesson 8 and i couldnt wait so i started live project and incororated everything in it learned from this book.

But this is the problem.

I have hosting on bluehost which makes mail conector from lessons 7-8 with gmail not to send email in example when i try to recover forgoten password.

The scripts changes the token in database in users table, token is created, and i get message that the mail was sent but nothing comes to my mail.

Same password login and everything works local but on bluehost server wont send mail.

I contacted them and they said that i have to create mail on server from which mail will be sent.

I did that too.

But for what ever i put in mailconector array cant get that mail, and i really dont know what to do and who to ask.

Until this point i could get every problem solved put this bugs me because this is the last stage of what i was tryong to do and that is to incorporate login system from the book to live page.

this is the code i have:

<?php

$mailhost='ssl://mail.majapanic-tarot.com';

$mailconfig=array( 'auth' => 'true',

'username' => 'majapanic@majapanic-tarot.com',

'password' => 'password',

'ssl' => 'ssl',

'port' => '465');

$transport=new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp($mailhost,$mailconfig);

Zend_Mail::setDefaultTransport($transport);

and this is what they stated in info about the mail:

Mail Server Username: majapanic+majapanic-tarot.com >>>>>>>> this plus i think is (at)

Incoming Mail Server: mail.majapanic-tarot.com

Incoming Mail Server: (SSL) box344.bluehost.com

Outgoing Mail Server: mail.majapanic-tarot.com (server requires authentication) port 26

Outgoing Mail Server: (SSL) mail.majapanic-tarot.com (server requires authentication) port 465

Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL/TLS)

Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS)

Please HELP!

Report · Jan 24, 2013

FIXED!!

1)

i finally did get the message problem was with:

$mailhost='ssl://mail.domain.com';

ssl:// was just nonsense and been removed

2)

'auth' => 'true' was changed to 'auth' => 'login'

3)

for bluehost i got information that it was tls secure connection protocol not ssl

'ssl' => 'tls'

4)

port used '25' not 465.

Didnt still tried 26 and 465 maybe they would work too.

Report · Jan 24, 2013

Cool. I did initial reply to your post suggesting you remove the ssl:// as it is not part of a hostname - but then I ran accross this:

http://email.about.com/od/emailprogrammingtips/qt/PHP_Email_SMTP_Authentication.htm

so I deleted my reply. I found other posts on the web that suggest it too, so it might depend on your host.

Glad you got it working.