GrantG

I'm using xampp to test my site locally before uploading changes. My PHP scripts use the local MercuryMail install (included with xampp) to send emails to my email account on my UH hosted site.

None of the emails are being received, but the MercuryMail logs show that it has been received by the pop server. I assume they are being blocked as spam because they come from a known dsl address.

Is there a way to whitelist my ip address so that my test emails will come through?

Simon

More likely is that the Mercury mail is not authenticating with the uh server when it connects. So it is actually being rejected. I used Mercury mail for a short time a long time ago and it does normally report these kinds of errors in one of the many windows it has.

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GrantG

Authenticating?

I'm looking at the server log for the MercuryMail smtp server and it shows that the email has been sent successfully and received by the recipient (which is on the UH hosted site).

I can only assume that the spam blocker is catching the email since the email server is on a dynamic IP address range.

Simon

Mail sent through mail.yourdomain.com doesn't get filtered by mail foundry or any other spam filter so i don't think that is the problem

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GrantG

That's the problem. I'm not sending it from my domain. When testing the site on my local computer (using xampp which includes an smtp server: MercuryMail), I don't receive the emails even though the smtp server shows that it has connected and delivered it.

MrBen

No you can't whitelist your IP. Can you not configure MercuryMail to relay to another SMTP server with authentication (i.e. the UH server, which will allow you to bypass the filtering)?

Ben

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GrantG

MercuryMail is the SMTP server.

I suppose I could configure PHP to use the UH hosted SMTP server to send email, but it seems silly that I can't even send myself an email without getting blocked by the spam filter. It makes me wonder how much good mail is getting blocked also.