Re: Mime::Lite problems sending

It could be a relay issue as another user pointed out.
In a nutshell relaying is bad. It would allow anyone to send a message through your SMTP port. To prevent this the SMTP server is going to verify that either the 'sender' or the 'to' is a valid user (this can be more or less strict depending on your SMTP server configuration).
So in this case when you send an email message with a "to" and "from" that are not hosted by your SMTP server it is rejected for processing.
I could be completely wrong, but I have been bitten by this in the past.

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Re: Re: Mime::Lite problems sending by TomSW (Novice) on Jan 23, 2002 at 18:43 UTC
Aha, perhaps I should be paying a lot more attention to the From field of the message? at the moment it defaults to script.name@server.url thanks for all your help; now I'm going to pester the server administrator	[reply]