RainGirl82

Yes, you are right! Yahoo isn't blocking regular mails. Just 2 days earlier, I tested a flash form and it worked. Just now tried your code and that also worked. The problem comes only through Joomla form. I am not able to understand what header information it is passing for which the mails are blocked by yahoo!!!!

Wow, one more step closer. After detailed reading & understanding, I found this error message in emails: host e.mx.mail.yahoo.com [216.39.53.1]: 554 Message not allowed - UP Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-04.html. The given link tells: "There is something about the message contents that Yahoo! Mail will not accept for policy reasons. For instance, it is against Yahoo! Mail's policy to send phishing/fraud attempts or viruses." Why yahoo is treating these mails/ server as fraud? There is nothing in emails..they are just test mails. Is yahoo treating the header information as Spam? Why so? Anybody...any idea? Yes..one more thing...I tried with different ids like google and rediffmail but everything works beautifully with them...the problem is just with yahoo.

Ok, just now got a clue but don't know how to proceed further & now somebody must be able to help me. The DEFAULT EMAIL ACCOUNT is catching all the emails. When we go to Heliohost's control panel and click on Email Accounts, inside there we have our default email account that catches all unrouted mails. When I checked that account, I found all the mails dumped in there. I think mails are not getting proper route to reach the destination. So now please tell me how to solve this problem? Please I have been working on this for so many days....help!!!

Oh ok, it's yahoo! Still the problem is same.

They are just simple mail through contact form...with name, email id and message. And when I sign up as a new user, I don't get activation email.

So what could be the reason of not getting any emails? When I send messages by filling up the contact form (created through joomla) or when I sign up as user, no mail messages are received at both ends (neither admin nor user)..attached image has joomla mail settings..I am not able to figure what the problem is (tried different settings as well), can you please help me! P.S. SMTP Port: 25 (comes by default & does not go away)

No, am not using heliohost's address. I am using personal "yahoo" mail for this.

Hello, I installed Joomla and trying to set up a contact form..The component on my site says that mail has been sent but the detination never receives the mail. I looked for help on Joomla forums and the response I got is check whether your host support "PHP MAIL FUNCTION". Want to know is this function supported by heliohost? And if not then can you please fill in the following information that Joomla asks for sending mail? 1) Sendmail Path: /usr/sbin/sendmail (Is this correct?) 2) SMTP Port: 3) SMTP Username: (Is this heliohost's username-password?) 4) SMTP Password: 5) SMTP Host: 6) Does SMTP require authentication? 7) SMTP security: SSL/TLS? 8) SMTP Server: I have been working on this since so many weeks, kindly help me please.

That's ok...I am not blaming heliohost or anybody for anything. Infact I am very much thankful to helihost for their full support, I appreciate it a lot. I was a bit curious to know but now it's ok! I will start work again...it is never too difficult.

Thanks for support! Yes I do have backup but anyone would be curious to know about his/her work gone all of a sudden. I know data just don't disappear but believe me I did not delete anything otherwise I wouldn't be troubling you. My last action was to add a package & not the delete. BTW where is this trash folder, I looked for it but could not locate it. Also one thing I noticed that when I log in & click on File Manager it shows File Manager Directory Selection pop-up, I had set it to skip the pop-up. Feels like somebody has messed up!

URL: www.findaboutindia.com Please help...this is my test site and all the data is gone, a year's work is gone all of a sudden. This is a nightmare!

4 days back I was working on my site, everything was perfect & today when I logged in there is no index file & nothing...no files, folders, images, nothing. Everything is lost. This is a huge shock. What happened suddenly? Why the data is lost? I did not delete anything in real or in my dreams. When I go to the site, it shows just a blank page. PLEASE HELP!!! MY DATA IS LOST COMPLETELY!!! WHY???

Oh thanks a million! I will surely take down crons after testing.

Well, testing is like this only...running scripts at different intervals & grabbing data & analyzing it. According to me script looks perfect but it is not necessary that it will run as per my expectations & how can I know this without testing it? Once tested 'n' number of times at 'n' random intervals with 'n' email templates...then only I can predict something about scripts behavior. Right now I tested it with one cron that sends 1 e-mail message at one specific time...also by using cron I wana test that my sendmail script can handle 3-4 different mail messages one after another....not only this, along with this I can learn so many things...tunning up the system as per the requirements, developing a system is a different thing & fine tunning is a different thing. You are technical as well, you must be knowing that testing is performed in random order to find errors. My system won't cause any harm to your system. Cron is just running sendmail command which is sending mails to my e-mail ids. Hopefully you can understand it, if you still have any questions I am ready to answer all. Thanks

There are 3 reasons: 1. I want to test it at different times like 1am, 5am, 8am, 12pm, 6pm, 10pm..running it through URL at odd times is difficult. 2. I also want to check whether the system configures properly with cron or not, what messages it reports, errors, does it send proper messages at proper times...this is for initial testing & then switch over to paid hosting because this system is designed to run automatically (if the auto-responding system is worth enough). 3. Right now I am running auto-responding system manually (that works well), now want to test it by making it an automated system. Tried running with CGI-Wrapper but got loads of error messages because of path, directories, etc....