Why doesn't my PHP email forum work with any other sender besides my SMTP email account?

Port 25 for SMTP may blocked on your network.

How to check whether SMTP port 25 is blocked?

thanks, I tried that but just got “request timed out”
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Anyways, your answer lead me to finding the real answer.. so on freehostia.com I found a “rule” for making PHP email forums:

“Make sure that the e-mail account of either the recipient or the sender of the message is hosted here [...]”

So my PHP email forum on the classifieds website (www.LPCstudents.com) should work like this,

A visiter puts up an ad with their email address (recipient) and a customer fills out their email in the forum (sender).

Would this usually work with PHP? Is this not possible with freehostia.com? Would this work on other host providers? Or is there another way to follow the below and still get the same results: visiter posts the ad (recipient) and the customer replies (sender).

Well thanks, I guess I’ll have to do the following.

Because my host requires that one of the email’s, either the (recipient) or (sender), is in my host account I will try to change the code.

In the “email this person” button the “your email” will be hidden with a value = myhostemail. The customer will then have to add contact info in the email.

Thanks anyways,

ben