email form causes server errors

[Anon]

I have php4 running on a Winnt box with Apache.

I have setup a mail form that takes the input a user gives, and tries to submit it via the mail function. At first, it wouldn't connect to the mailserver, so I installed a mailserver on the webserver. IT stopped the "cannot connect" error.

However, now when I try to run the script, I get..

Warning: Server Error in c:\apache\htdocs\tech\email_form.php on line 7

My script is really simple, here it is:

---

<?track_vars?>
<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "From:".$sender_name;
$body = "Problem:\$problem\n\n";
$subject= "Intranet Helpdesk\n";
mail($to,$from,$subject,$body);
echo "<h3> Your Request for Help has been sent</h3>";
echo "You should be hearing back from IT as soon as is possible<p></p>";

?>

When I run this, it just keeps feeding me the error in line 7, which is the "mail" call.

I've went into php.ini, and made sure to set smtp "mail" to localhost. That still doesn't help.

Anyone have any ideas ?

[Anon]

If you tell PHP to send mail to 'localhost', that implies you also have an smtp server running on the NT box? Do you? If not, you need to change the location to the ip of a box somewhere that does have smtp running.

[Anon]

fileatime() gives last access time.

filemtime() gives last modification time..

Maybe those can help you?

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

Sorry....

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

Old Thread, but am researching similar problem.

I've got an old mail server and a new mail server. With old mail server, no problems.

With new mail server, started receiving same error message (Server Error in ...).

I take out all of the (\n)'s from my mail() statements and it works. But I need the Line Breaks. Ideas?