Emails not sending on Yahoo hosting

There have been a few reports of emails not being sent from ProofBuddy on Yahoo hosting.  What I’ve found is that the company email address set under the Options -> Company tab has to be at the same domain as the Yahoo account.  So if you’re company is using example.com as the domain name, you can’t use bob123@yahoo.com for the company email address.  You’ll have to setup bob@example.com and use that instead. 

If you’re using Yahoo for hosting and this doesn’t help you can also look at the mail error log file.  To do this login to your account with a FTP program and open the /tmp/ folder.  You’ll see a file called mailError.log.  Open this file and it will list any errors that occurred while trying to send mail.

One important thing to keep in mind is that Yahoo limits the number of emails that can be sent through a script like this to 250 recipients per day.  This shouldn’t be an issue for most people, but if you’re running a mailing list program or you have a lot of activity on your ProofBuddy site you could come up against this limit.  It looks like any emails that are attempted after the 250 limit will be ignored.