script check....mail()

[sane993]

Hey,
I got two pages one called process.php and the other one called normal.php.

Normal.php just basically consists of a form with input areas for the following name, your email address, who's it to and the message (textarea).

When submit button is clicked the go to process.php which basically is:

<?php
$name = $HTTP_POST_VARS["name"];
$from = $HTTP_POST_VARS["from"];
$send = $HTTP_POST_VARS["send"];
$subject = $HTTP_POST_VARS["subject"];
$message = $HTTP_POST_VARS["message"];

mail($send, $subject, $message, "From: $from");
?>

Whats wrong, the error i get points to the mail command. I think its got sumthing to do with "From: $from" but wouldn't really know.

Thanks for your time

[xentrix]

Hi sane933,

of course the error has something to do with "From...".
Do you have variable $from finished with these characters "\n"? It could be the reason why there is a mistake here...

$from = "[e-mail]\n";

I use ther class mime_mail for sending emails and I have no problems yet. This class allow you to send emails with different headers, with appendix and so on... I don't know exactly where you could find it - try Google ;-)

[sane993]

thanks xentrix, i'll try it out.

[sane993]

nah it still didn't work. i wrote

$from = $from."/n";

and I still got the same error of failed to connect to "filename" on line 13 (which is the mail() command)

[xentrix]

I meant

$from .= "\n"; // - backslash! not line of a fraction - "/"

But it is strange....

I tried this code:

<?
$send = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "test";
$message = "test/text";
$from = "[e-mail]";

mail ($send, $subject, $message, "From: $from");
?>

and it works...
Doesn't matter what kind of arguments of mail() function I used...
mail ($send, $subject, $message, "From: $from");
or
mail ($send, $subject, $message, "From: $from\n");
both worked...

But I read about the error... Function mail() never connects to any file (you wrote about "filename") but to a mail server. Do you have installed it (if you try this piece of code on your local machine)? Or do you try it online?

Or - are the values of all variables OK? Isn't there any suspect?

[sane993]

I'm running it through a localhost, using Apache, but I'm connected to the internet.

$name = sane993
$from = [e-mail]
$send = [e-mail]
$subject = Test
$message = This is a test. A Bloody good test as well.

The values are what the vars would equal.

[xentrix]

Oh, you run it through a localhost - this is the problem. Function mail() tries to connect to some mailserver (which is defined in httpd.conf file of Apache). If you have only webserver on your machine (and no mailserver) that function will never work. You have to install any mailserver on your machine or try this function online - on some webhosting server which supports function mail() = it means every good webhosting ;-)

I think you haven´t to worry about it - the syntax and values of variables are good and online the function will work.

[sane993]

For some reason i'm not recieving any emails in my inbox but the code isn't producing the error anymore. Anyone have any tips, I thought it might have something to do with sending emails to different providers like hotmail or etc.

[sane993]

can any1 give me a reason why i'm not recieving any emails?