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Posted by Tha RagMan on April 30, 2009, 8:50 am
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This seriously amateur web page creator moved from cgi formmail to php
several years ago. Now more and more customers are complaining that
they are not receiving the input data that is suppose to be sent their
way via email. Is php formmail having security issues that the ISP's
are filtering them out? What is the current accepted formmail handling
that most are using if I am that far out of step?
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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on April 30, 2009, 9:37 am
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Tha RagMan wrote:
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> This seriously amateur web page creator moved from cgi formmail to php
> several years ago. Now more and more customers are complaining that
> they are not receiving the input data that is suppose to be sent their
> way via email. Is php formmail having security issues that the ISP's
> are filtering them out? What is the current accepted formmail handling
> that most are using if I am that far out of step?
Are all of your customers complaining, or just some of them?
If it's just some of them, chances are it's the spam filters on the
receiving system. They should check their spam mailboxes (if possible)
to see if they are in there.
Check through the threads in comp.lang.php - there have been several
people with similar problems in that newsgroup lately.
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Posted by Tha RagMan on April 30, 2009, 11:49 am
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:37:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
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>Tha RagMan wrote:
>> This seriously amateur web page creator moved from cgi formmail to php
>> several years ago. Now more and more customers are complaining that
>> they are not receiving the input data that is suppose to be sent their
>> way via email. Is php formmail having security issues that the ISP's
>> are filtering them out? What is the current accepted formmail handling
>> that most are using if I am that far out of step?
>Are all of your customers complaining, or just some of them?
>If it's just some of them, chances are it's the spam filters on the
>receiving system. They should check their spam mailboxes (if possible)
>to see if they are in there.
>Check through the threads in comp.lang.php - there have been several
>people with similar problems in that newsgroup lately.
Jerry - Jeff
Thanks for the valuable info. In taking a closer look I find that this
problem is isolated to a select few who just happen to be using the
same ISP. That speaks volumes as to a possible filter on their end
being the culprit. Thanks much for the info and help to you both.
The RagMan
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Posted by Jeff on April 30, 2009, 1:21 pm
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> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:37:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
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>> Tha RagMan wrote:
>>> This seriously amateur web page creator moved from cgi formmail to php
>>> several years ago. Now more and more customers are complaining that
>>> they are not receiving the input data that is suppose to be sent their
>>> way via email. Is php formmail having security issues that the ISP's
>>> are filtering them out? What is the current accepted formmail handling
>>> that most are using if I am that far out of step?
>> Are all of your customers complaining, or just some of them?
>> If it's just some of them, chances are it's the spam filters on the
>> receiving system. They should check their spam mailboxes (if possible)
>> to see if they are in there.
>> Check through the threads in comp.lang.php - there have been several
>> people with similar problems in that newsgroup lately.
>
> Jerry - Jeff
> Thanks for the valuable info. In taking a closer look I find that this
> problem is isolated to a select few who just happen to be using the
> same ISP. That speaks volumes as to a possible filter on their end
> being the culprit. Thanks much for the info and help to you both.
> The RagMan
Look online for email ban lists, I don't have any references handy,
but you can check to see if either the IP or the domain is on anyone
sSPAM list. Hope you aren't n shared hosting...
Jeff
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Posted by Nathan Keel on April 30, 2009, 2:16 pm
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> This seriously amateur web page creator moved from cgi formmail to php
> several years ago. Now more and more customers are complaining that
> they are not receiving the input data that is suppose to be sent their
> way via email. Is php formmail having security issues that the ISP's
> are filtering them out? What is the current accepted formmail handling
> that most are using if I am that far out of step?
The issue likely isn't related to PHP over CGI, it might just be a
problem with that particular script, or the host you use is maybe
blacklisted or on some watch list to reject too many emails or emails
after so many reports? The only issue I can think of, besides a badly
coded script, is that the host might have PHP running as the global web
server user, and some providers have been known to block emails from
PHP scripts that show the global user in the headers, (such as the
nobody user). That's the only potential I can think of for the PHP vs.
CGI difference (assuming CGI doesn't run as the same global user, and
it might be). It could also just be that several years ago you didn't
have the problems with the forms you have now.
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> several years ago. Now more and more customers are complaining that
> they are not receiving the input data that is suppose to be sent their
> way via email. Is php formmail having security issues that the ISP's
> are filtering them out? What is the current accepted formmail handling
> that most are using if I am that far out of step?