Drupal doesn't send any emails

Posted by cerr on December 1, 2012 at 11:45pm

Hi,

I setup and configured a Drupal install on GoDaddy. And I realized that my Webform doesn't send emails - even worse, requesting a new password from the drupal login screen doesn't send an email either, even tho it says "Further instructions have been sent to your e-mail address." - However, nothing ever arrives but following php code to test the mail function seems to work fine:

<?php
// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('example@example.com', 'My Subject', $message);
?>

What might I be missing? Please advise!

Thanks!
Ron

Comments

Make sure that the site

Posted by Jaypan on December 2, 2012 at 12:19am

Make sure that the site address is an existing email address. Some servers will not send email addresses if the email address doesn't actually exist, in order to prevent spamming.

Jaypan We build websites

email exists

Posted by cerr on December 2, 2012 at 12:37am

yep, but the email address in my drupal configuration does exist!

iNetGate - get connected
http://www.inetgate.biz

=-=

Posted by VM on December 2, 2012 at 12:50am

if drupal is reporting that the mail is sent, I'd venture a guess something is happening to it after drupal hands it off. If on a shared host check to see if the IP address of your server is blacklisted.

but the above php script

Posted by cerr on December 2, 2012 at 2:58am

but the above php script works from that same server...

iNetGate - get connected
http://www.inetgate.biz

Do you logs show any

Posted by Cory Goodwin on December 2, 2012 at 3:43am

Do you logs show any messages?
/admin/reports/dblog

--
Hire me and Follow me on Twitter

I just realized you aren't

Posted by Jaypan on December 2, 2012 at 6:05am

I just realized you aren't using Drupal's Mail API. So drupal will not give you any information as to what's happening. There isn't really much we can do to help either, as the problem will be somewhere on your server unrelated to Drupal.

If you use Drupal's mail API you will get more information that we can help you with. Here's tutorial for Drupal 6, but Drupal 7 is pretty much the same: http://www.trevorsimonton.com/blog/drupalmail-example-tutorial-explanation

Jaypan We build websites

Ha! Dummy me! Emails went to

Posted by cerr on December 3, 2012 at 12:34am

Ha! Dummy me! Emails went to the spam folder. Sorry for wasting everyone's time but thanks for attempting to help me! Much appreciated!

Thanks all and my apologies!

iNetGate - get connected
http://www.inetgate.biz