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It took me couple of days to understand why any of the refer-a-friend script didn’t work on my client’s Yahoo store. Yahoo small business hosting server is limiting the functionality of PHP scripting. One of the limitation is that an email cannot be send, using mail(), if the From address is not specified as from the web site domain name (that is the referral cannot be sent as from the one referring). This was done to prevent spamming but it limits the functionality of refer-a-friend type script.

Looking at a script and forum by Michael Bloch lead me to create a modification of that script in order to troubleshoot that Yahoo Store issue. I’ve seen in the forum that other Yahoo Store owner had the same issue but Michael stopped the Q&A and their issue was never resolved.

The fix is simple: all the instances where From is a variable are changed to constant. you can download the Zip file yahoo_store_refer_a_friend_rdezine_com.zip containing

recommend.htm

refer.php

thankyou.htm

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