problems sending mail on new web host

[Anon]

I have just changed web host and now have problems sending email through php. When I emailed to their tech support I was told that they have not set up the mail function in php.

They suggested doing the following;

"I believe you can get set a
php script to shell out to bash and send a mail that way."

I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone please help as I am totaly stuck.

Thanx if you can,

ben_g

[nashirak]

Something like this... I used the popen functions:

$fp = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f" .$from, "w");
fputs($fp, $header);
fputs($fp, $Body);
fputs($fp, "\n");
pclose($fp);

$headers would be like:

$header = "To: $To\n";
$header .= "CC: $CC\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: $SITE_HEADER\n";

$header .= "Subject: " . stripslashes($Subject) . "\n\n";

Of course there could be a lot more header feilds (reply-to etc) but this should get you started. Hope this Helps!

[Anon]

I have got it working using;

$header = "To: [e-mail]\n";
$header .= "CC:\n";
$header .= "Subject: Test email\n";
$header .= "From: [e-mail]\n\n";
$Body = "This is a test email body";

$fp = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f", "w");
fputs($fp, $header);
fputs($fp, $Body);
fputs($fp, "\n");
pclose($fp);

What do the switches mean after /usr/sbin/sendmail?

and the "w" in the popen()?

Also is the "X-Mailer: $SITE_HEADER" important as it doesn't seem to do anything?

Thanx for your help anyway,

ben_g

[nashirak]

-t Extract recipients from message headers. This requires that no recipients be specified on the command line.

-F sets the from headers I think.

The w in popen, means open a process pointer in write mode (ie. write this to the command line). The X-Mailer: $SITE_HEADER is not important at all. This is part of some code I wrote and (embarassing), I couldnt figure out what to name the mailer I was working on so I just said $SITE_HEADER and can change it anytime I want. 🙂 All this does it tell what program wrote the email.

Hope this Helps!
(I would read the man on sendmail and the function specifications for popen etc in the phpmanual)

[Anon]

Thanx for your help its been very helpfull

ben_g