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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: muchmorewealth on November 13, 2004, 02:43:08 pm

Title: No Confirmation or Welcome messages
Post by: muchmorewealth on November 13, 2004, 02:43:08 pm

Hello,

I have just started using listmail and find it very good, however I have come across a problem.

My host has just moved my site to another serevr and copied everything over, I have backed up and restored my databases and everything appeared ok.

I have discovered however that although followup messages work ok the confirmation and welcome messages are not being sent. My unerstanding is that these use the sendmail php function as opposed to smtp that I have setup for all other messages.

If I look at the perl modules that are installed on the old server where listmail worked perfectly there are several sendmail items. On the new server there are none, could this be the problem.

I am sure I read on another post that Listmail uses no perl modules so this was a stab in the dark.

If anyone has experienced this issue or has any ideas they would be grately appreciated.

Many thanks

MuchMoreWealth

Title: No Confirmation or Welcome messages
Post by: DW on November 14, 2004, 12:22:35 am

ListMail uses the PHP mail function, not Perl.  PHP settings can be viewed by uploading and browsing to a script, ie test.php,  containing this:

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<?phpphpinfo();?>

The interesting variables are sendmail_from, sendmail_path, and SMTP.  If sendmail_path is not set you will not be able to send email.  Mine is set to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i".  The SMTP variable should point to your mail server, default is localhost but your host may not have mail running from the same server as its web pages.

Title: No Confirmation or Welcome messages
Post by: muchmorewealth on November 14, 2004, 01:04:41 pm

Thanks for the response

There is no value in the sendmail_from field but the other values are as you stated.

Is there any other things I should check

Thanks

Title: No Confirmation or Welcome messages
Post by: DW on November 14, 2004, 01:30:29 pm

Try uncommenting or adding the following line in ListMail's config.php

$phpmailf = 1;

This will enable the addition of a 5th paramater to the PHP mail() function that sets sendmail_from.

I am not 100% sure if this will work we may need to include a specific entry like this in config.php:

ini_set('sendmail_from','something@yourdomain.com');

Title: No Confirmation or Welcome messages
Post by: muchmorewealth on November 15, 2004, 05:58:07 am

Hello,

Thanks for your time and help but it would appear that there was an issue with my hosting account as they have done something and it is working fine now.

Keep up the great work with the program, I think it's awesome

Thanks Again

muchmorewealth