PHP Form mail not sending

I'm having a problem with my formmail on my VPS. Centos 6.4 64 bit, Postfix.
Webmail and outlook mail (smtp/pop3) are working fine. Sending and receiving email is working.

When I try to send emails from formmail.php the mail is not sent.

I've added a test line in my formmail.php.
The page is redirecting which is a confirmation that the mail was sent. If the mail was not sent I should receive the error message.

if (mail($recipient, $subject, $message, "FROM: $email") )
{
header("Location: sent.html");
} else
{
echo "email could not be sent";
}

 

You may want to check your MTA logs to verify that the email was indeed sent.

Also, you may want to format your header like so:

<?PHP
$default_from_name = "Some name here";
$headers = "From: {$default_from_name} <{$email}>\r\n";
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
  header("Location: sent.html", 200);
} else {
  echo "Email could not be sent";
}
?>

Code (markup):

 

Thanks for your help. I'm making some progress but still not working. here is the latest message from my mail log. Can someone tell me what the problem might be?

Jun 10 13:36:06 server1 postfix/pickup[776]: DD8CC58428F5: uid=48 from=<apache>
Jun 10 13:36:06 server1 postfix/cleanup[848]: DD8CC58428F5: message-id=<>
Jun 10 13:36:06 server1 postfix/qmgr[777]: DD8CC58428F5: from=<>, size=350, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 10 13:36:07 server1 postfix/smtp[784]: DD8CC58428F5: to=<>, relay=xxxxxxxx.com[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25, delay=0.28, delays=0.01/0/0.25/0.01, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host xxxxxxxx.com[xx.xx.xx.xx] said: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later (in reply to RCPT TO command))

 

That sounds like the message is getting filtered on the other end. With the redacted logs, I can't tell much. I might suggest running a blacklist check using http://multirbl.valli.org and give it your server's primary IP address, and see what it says.

 

i checked that and not blacklisted anywhere.

 

Can you ping the destination server from your mail server?

 

Yes, i can ping the destination server from my mail server. I have discovered one thing though. PHP mail sends ok from my host domain. It seems that only on virtual hosts that is isn't sending. I still have no idea why.

 

I think there is a problem in main.cf. can u paste the main.cf file here and also the hostname -f

 

Here is main.cf


# postfix config file

# uncomment for debugging if needed
soft_bounce=yes

# postfix main
mail_owner = postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
delay_warning_time = 4

# postfix paths
html_directory = no
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.2/samples
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.2/README_FILES

# network settings
inet_interfaces = all
mydomain = xxxxxx.com
myhostname = control.xxxxxxg.com
mynetworks = all
mydestination = localhost.$mydomain, localhost
relay_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/zpanel/configs/postfix/mysql-relay_domains_maps.cf

# mail delivery
recipient_delimiter = +

# mappings
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
#local_recipient_maps =

# virtual setup
virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/zpanel/configs/postfix/mysql-virtual_alias_maps.cf,
regexp:/etc/zpanel/configs/postfix/virtual_regexp
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/zpanel/vmail
virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/zpanel/configs/postfix/mysql-virtual_domains_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/zpanel/configs/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailbox_maps.cf
virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/zpanel/configs/postfix/mysql-virtual_mailbox_limit_maps.cf
virtual_minimum_uid = 101
virtual_uid_maps = static:101
virtual_gid_maps = static:12
virtual_transport = dovecot
dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1

# debugging
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command =
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5

# authentication
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

# tls config
smtp_use_tls = no
smtpd_use_tls = no
#smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
#smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
#smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
#smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
#tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
#smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:$data_directory/smtp_tls_session_cache
# Change mail.example.com.* to your host name
#smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/pki/tls/private/mail.example.com.key
#smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.example.com.crt
# smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/pki/tls/root.crt

# rules restrictions
smtpd_client_restrictions =
smtpd_helo_restrictions =
smtpd_sender_restrictions =
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,
permit_mynetworks,
reject_unauth_destination,
reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
reject_unknown_recipient_domain
# uncomment for realtime black list checks
# ,reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org
# ,reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net
# ,reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net

smtpd_helo_required = yes
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
disable_vrfy_command = yes
smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining