Got a strange one. I am trying to send mail to clients when their radio station goes down. It works when the email is within the SMTP server domain but not externally. So if my SMTP server is collins.com and my email is chris@collins.com and I set the TO: field to joe@collins.com everything works fine. If the TO: filed is joe@comcast.net nothing ever gets through. Any bright Ideas? 
sub MailSmtp {
   my $settings = shift(@_);
   my $stationNumber = shift(@_);

   my $from = $settings->{fromEmail};
   my $reply = $settings->{replyEmail};
   my @to = split(/,/,$settings->{emailGroup}); 

   my $subject;
   my $user = $settings->{user};
   my $pass = $settings->{pass};
   my $port;
   if (exists $settings->{port}) {
     $port = $settings->{port};
   }else{
     $port = 25;
   }
   my $status = $settings->{ports}->{$stationNumber}->{status};

   my $relay = $settings->{smtp};
   my $smtp;

   $subject = $settings->{ports}->{$stationNumber}->{id};
   $subject = $subject . " is " . $status;
   my $message = $settings->{message};

   $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($relay,Port => $port,Debug   => 0,) ;
   if (!$smtp) {
      print "\t--[ Could not connect to the email server\n";
      return;
   }
   $smtp->auth ( $user, $pass);
   $smtp->mail($from); # use the sender's address here
   $smtp->recipient($me); # recipient's address
   $smtp->data(); # Start the mail

   # Send the header.
   for $to (@to) {
       $smtp->datasend("To: $to\n");
   }
   $smtp->datasend("From: $from\n");
   $smtp->datasend("Subject: $subject\n");
   $smtp->datasend("Content-type: text/plain\n\n");

   # Send the body.
   $smtp->datasend("$message\n");
   $smtp->datasend(" ");
   my $res = $smtp->dataend();
   $smtp->quit; # Close the SMTP connection
   
   print "Email was ", $res ? '' : 'un', "successful.\n";
   
   return;
}

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In reply to Sending email only goes to the local domain ?? by crusty_collins

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