Missed that, thank you! So to update on some successes I've had.
Through trial and error I have discovered that if I completely remove the from: and reply-to: headers from the contact form part of the php mail script (ie the part that delivers the form to MY inbox) the problem seems to be...
yeah that's not the issue either because when i put in completely fake emails it works fine and gets to the inbox, displaying the from and reply to as the fake address no problem...
so yeah unless you are actively only filtering hotmail and gmail accounts i doubt that is what is going on...
even when i set the from: and reply-to: fields to my own email address it still is not going through, as if sending to myself is also blocked. could anyone recommend a php setting variable that will be acknowledged by the server? again if im sending to myself it still doesn't go through...can...
again, it has nothing to do with hotmail. hotmail is receiving the autoreplies. it is the local mail server that is rejecting locally created php mail forms with from: hotmail addresses. no where along the way are hotmail servers involved.
thank you.
Okay so if you know the cause already and can fix this issue, without google apps, i will pay you money through paypal. This issue is all over the forums but no real solution and does not make any sense.
The php mail form on my x10 site works, almost. it forwards to info@[mydomain].com a...
okay so my php mail form and built in autoreply worked when i entered my hotmail address to test it a week ago. now though the hotmail account will receive the autoreply, but the x10 mailbox or forwarding address never get the form. it works fine with gmail and almost any other made up address...