SMTP Server issues

[sri2002]

I have a registration forms which allows an user to register at my website a password gets generated automatically to the User's email ID. This works in my local server but when I host it in my client's server it fails. Only the email part fails. I checked the SMTP Server details and I am not positive if I am missing anything. My code is this:
<?PHP
function sendmail($name, $from, $to, $subject, $body, $html, $charset )
{
$smtp_server = "mail.domainname.com"; //enter your smtp server here
if (!$smtp_sock = fsockopen("$smtp_server", 25)) {
die ("Couldn't open mail connection to server! \n"); }

fputs($smtp_sock, "HELO $smtp_server\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "VRFY $smtp_server\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "MAIL FROM:<$from>\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "RCPT TO:<$to>\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "DATA\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "From: $name($from)\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "X-Mailer: emailer1.0\n");
if ($html)
fputs($smtp_sock, "Content-Type: text/html;");
else
fputs($smtp_sock, "Content-Type: text/plain;");
fputs($smtp_sock, "charset=$charser\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "MIME-Version: 1.0\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "To: $to\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "$body");
fputs($smtp_sock, "\n.\nQUIT\n");
fclose($smtp_sock);
}
?>

</body>
</html>
Thoughts/ideas
Thanks
Sri

[bobthedog]

Hmm - lot sof ideas, unfortunately not all of them relate to this...

Anyhow - could be several problems in this piece of code.... you say it doesn't work.. whats the error? Does it just not send? Does it die? etc etc

As to further tracking of errors - I would recommend actually reading something back from the server after each line is sent. If the server responds correctly, each line you send (apart from when sending the body data) should be followed by a response code i.e. 250 (good), 500 (bad) along with a bunch of others... The actual number representing good depends on the command you just sent.

Hopefully once you start taking a look at these you may have a better idea of whats going on.

[blanius]

Don't you need some }'s here?

if ($html) {
fputs($smtp_sock, "Content-Type: text/html;"); 
}else {
fputs($smtp_sock, "Content-Type: text/plain;"); 
}

[sri2002]

This did not help though? Still struck!
Thanks
Sri

[sri2002]

This did not help though? Still struck!
Thanks
Sri

[bobthedog]

So - what happened? Errors, stuff like that... any output? What did you get back from the server.

Try as I might, I can't quite get to grips with the mind reading stuff yet... so I'm just gonna have to rely on you telling me... strange I know, and I apologise for it. 🙂

[sri2002]

I am sorry was not working on this project till now. Yes I still have issues. I am not positive how I will be able to get error msgs from the server. I have this statement

die ("Couldn't open mail connection to server! \n");
This does not mail so I am thinking this is not an issue.
<?PHP
function sendmail($name, $from, $to, $subject, $body, $html, $charset )
{
$smtp_server = "mail.servername.com";
if (!$smtp_sock = fsockopen("$smtp_server", 25))
{
die ("Couldn't open mail connection to server! \n");
}
fputs($smtp_sock, "HELO $smtp_server\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "VRFY $smtp_server\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "MAIL FROM:<$from>\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "RCPT TO:<$to>\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "DATA\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "From: $name($from)\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "X-Mailer: emailer1.0\n");
if ($html)
fputs($smtp_sock, "Content-Type: text/html;");

else
fputs($smtp_sock, "Content-Type: text/plain;");
fputs($smtp_sock, "charset=$charser\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "MIME-Version: 1.0\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "To: $to\n");
fputs($smtp_sock, "$body");
fputs($smtp_sock, "\n.\nQUIT\n");
fclose($smtp_sock);
}
?>

</body>
</html>
Any thoughts/help.
Thanks
Sri

[sri2002]

This statement does not error out die ("Couldn't open mail connection to server! \n");

So I am thinking $smtp_server is not an issue.
Thoughts??
Thanks
Sri

[spaddict]

Well... couldn't you just use mail() ?

[sri2002]

What is the advantage of send mail () and strange part is friend says this script works in his server.
I had an error with a spelling and checked it now.
fputs($smtp_sock, "charset=$charser\n"); changed as
fputs($smtp_sock, "charset=$charset\n");

Any advise/ Thoughts?
Thanks
Sri

[spaddict]

If you're just simply looking to send a message, try this:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

It'll probably do everything you need.

[sri2002]

This did not work either
{
mail("<4to>\n", "Subject:$subject\n", $body,
"From: <$from>\n"
."Reply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
."X-Mailer: emailer1.0\n");
Am I missing any logic here?
Thanks
Sri

[b0r3d]

To simplify this just do what the guy above said. But like this.

$to="[e-mail]";
$subject="This is a test";
$body=" 
$header_email="[e-mail]";

Enter the body of the text you want to send blah
blah blah blah";

$header="From: $header_email <$header_email>";

then use the function....

mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);

If you don't want to use all that just do a simple one like this.

mail("[e-mail]", "Subject here", "Body of the email here", "From: [email][e-mail][/email] <[e-mail]>");

Hope that helps?

b0r3d

[b0r3d]

$to="[e-mail]";
$subject="This is a test";
$header_email="[e-mail]";
$body=" 
Enter the body of the text you want to send blah
blah blah blah";

$header="From: $header_email <$header_email>";

then use the function....

mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);

If you don't want to use all that just do a simple one like this.

mail("[e-mail]", "Subject here", "Body of the email here", "From: [email][e-mail][/email] <[e-mail]>");

Small mistake, sorry...


b0r3d