custom mail function

[jeofoyster]

Hi there. I'm using this mail function, borrowed from the Manual errata at PHP.net. But, it's not working to send mail like it's supposed to. Can you help me debug or point me in the direction of where the problem is? the path to sendmail is correct, i already checked that with my host. Thanks!

Jeof

function mailfrom($fromaddress, $toaddress, $subject, $body, $headers) {
$fp = popen('/usr/sbin/sendmail -f'.$fromaddress.' '.$toaddress,"w");
if(!$fp) return false;
fputs($fp, "To: $toaddress\n");
fputs($fp, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($fp, $headers."\n\n");
fputs($fp, $body);
fputs($fp, "\n");
pclose($fp);
return true;
}

[reagent]

try running
/usr/sbin/sendmail -f from the command prompt.. is it there?
sometimes its in /usr/lib depending on the system, or you may not have access to it..

also, this function doesn't appear to like addresses formatted like
Your Email<[e-mail]>

for some reason (at least when i was testing it)

But if you can get it to work, it's much faster than using mail() and it will allow you to set the "Return-Path:" header

good luck