Universal Email not sending email on Apache Server

I have a couple of clients using Service Providers running Apache servers. I have had no success using UE on these servers and have moved some of the willing clients over onto Windows Servers. I have no problems with UE on the Windows Server. I have created a basic form and have applied 'Mail for Linux'. I have tried all the options available for php. The form seems to work and is redirected to the correct page, however, I don't receive any emails.

Have to admit I've had no trouble with Apache servers.

Have Universal Email on three of them, and have left the Email_Server field blank each time [$WAGLOBAL_Email_Server = "" ;]

This seems to do it for most people.

Also check that sent email isn't being filtered in to Junk/Spam folders.

Excuse my ignorance, but I can't find that code anywhere. I removed the Server Name and Port Number just for a test, but doesn't work.

Thanks for trying to assist.

I've had the same experience as neilo with Apache servers, just using the default server settings. Your host might have something different setup for shared hosting.

As far as finding the variable, you could try this:
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I have done the search but [$WAGLOBAL_Email_Server = "" ;] doesn't seem to exist.

I have requested the info from the host but they don't know what's going on, so they've told me to sort out it myself.

If they can't tell you the settings to use to send email through PHP it sounds like it's time for a new host.

Maybe you just got an ignorant tech. Sometimes the really cheap hosting companies will make it hard or impossible to use features in an effort to keep costs down or claim it's a security issue. You might want to try the support forums for the host and ask what the server settings are to send email using PHP.

Note that "$WAGLOBAL_Email_Server" is just the variable used by UE. Different apps use different variables but they have the same function of setting the server to use.

Yes, - apologies Peter,

Saying '$WAGLOBAL_Email_Server = "" ;' wasn't a very useful way of helping.

Removing the Server Name and Port Number from the UE interface is what I should have said, and I see you have tried that.

If you have done that, and uploaded your pages and whole WA_Universal_Email folder to your server, sent a test mail, checked your email forwarding and the spam filtering and STILL not received the email, then only your hosts can really provide the correct details!

If my host was unable to provide this information, I would switch providers. Maybe when the WA Guys return on Monday, they may have something further to suggest.

Sorry to have confused.

Thanks !

I've had similar problems with other hosts, which ended in moving the site to another host.

Another thing, don't know if there is a problem in this code, but Dreamweaver keeps giving me a "? Server Markup", with the following code when UE is selected under server behaviours.

if (($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") && (strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"])===0 || strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"], $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"])>0)) {
//WA Universal Email object="Mail for Linux"
//Send Loop Once Per Entry
$RecipientEmail = "peter@spinaxis.co.za";include("WA_Universal_Email/WAUE_enquiries_1.php");

I presume this is normal.

Not sure if it's normal, but I get a '?' too - 'though my emails send ok.

For the record, the code for my UE server behaviour looks like this:


if ((($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") && (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]) && strpos(urldecode($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]), urldecode($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])) > 0) && isset($_POST))) {
//WA Universal Email object="mail"
//Send Loop Once Per Entry
$RecipientEmail = "".($WAGLOBAL_Contact_Email_To) ."";include("WA_Universal_Email/WAUE_enquiries_1.php");

Ok, thanks.

I'm going try inserting your code and see what happens. I've run out of ideas. Service provider is now ignoring my calls.