Mail under PHP

Anon

Hi,

I'm trying to send mail to myself through a feedback form. Basically the user enters their comments (on how bad my site is :-) and I get it e-mailed.

I used the following command:

if(!mail("sridhar@coolmail.net", "Hey, some geek want to comment on your page!", "This is the message. This is a test and only a test. Good bye\n")) {
print "AAAHHHH! The mail did not go through!";
}

and well, guess what? it didn't work.

any ideas why?

I'm running this script in a server at home connected to a dialup-network. My email address is correct. Well, I can't think of anything that is wrong.

any yes, I DID check my e-mail. I did not get a mail from this program..

any suggestions are welcomed,
-sridhar

Anon

What OS is this running under? If unix, then sendmail
(or something similar) needs to be running; if NT, then
you need to correctly set up stuff in PHP.INI to point
to a mailserver somewhere.

Anon

yes, sendmail is running. I have a sun Ultra-60 computer. It runs Solaris 2.8, RH 6.2, Debian 2.2, SuSE, and Caldera Openlinux. BUT I mainly use RH 6.2. Sendmail is definately running (because I'm experimenting with mailertables and virtualusers a lot) and it works fine when I send mail using CGI/Perl or mail clients.

doesn't this function report any errors? Is there a command equivalent to perror in C which will tell me what went wrong in the last command invokes?

thanks for the help,
-sridhar

Anon

OK, when you say "didn't work" do you mean you get a false
return from mail(), or merely that the mail wasn't delivered?

Anon

And does sendmail accept '-t' as a command-line option
on Solaris?

Anon

kirk,

yes, sendmail accepts the -t option and right now i'm coding under RH6.2. Also, the function returns false (and of course then, the mail is undelivered).

thanks for your help,
-sridhar

Anon

My next response would be to telnet to the box and run
the command by hand and see if that works, and also
(perhaps depending on the outcome of the preceding)
telnet directly to the mailserver at port 25 and send a
mail "by hand". If these both work, the only thing left
is something gone wrong in your php configuration file.