my tools: server= digitalocean domain= godaddy installed apache/2.4.18 php 7.0.30 ubuntu 16.04
i have tried install sendmail and configure it as below:
sudo apt-get install sendmail and configure the /etc/hosts
sudo nano /etc/hosts i am sure it contains 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain myhostname and i made
sendmailconfig yes for all questions in sendmail config. also restarted apache2 with
sudo service apache2 restart it is not sending mail. can u help me?
i tried send mail with send.php it contains:
<?php $to = ''; $title = 'title of mail'; $content = 'hello from world'; $titles = 'From: ' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' .phpversion(); mail($to, $title, $content, $titles); ?> 1 Answer
Digitalocean has shared ip for users therefore, outlook, gmail etc. put it in the blacklist. In summary, mail() function works but does not deliver the mails.