going crazy, mail() refuses to work

[panosa73]

Hi. I don't know what to think. The line is very simple:
mail($Email, $msgSubject, $msgBody, $xHeaders);
The email never comes to my email box.
I've also tried this:
$fd = popen("/usr/lib/sendmail -t","w");
fputs($fd, "To: $Email \n");
fputs($fd, "From: $Eml \n");
fputs($fd, "Subject: Web site order\n");
fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP/4.0.6\n");
fputs($fd, "Testing.\n");
pclose($fd);
Again. nothing.
I've contacted my host's support team. Nothing.
Anybody has any idea what the heck is goin on here?
Thanks
Panos A.

[azkworld]

give me the actual values of
$Email, $msgSubject, $msgBody, $xHeaders
-- prob. something wrong with them

[swjohnson]

<?track_vars?>
<?php
$msg="Questions answered?\t$found_info\n";
$msg.="Message:\t$message\n\n";

$mailheaders = "From $sender_name\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply to: $sender_email\n\n";
$mailheaders .= "Subject: $sender_subject\n\n";

mail("[e-mail]", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
mail("[e-mail]", $sender_subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

Notice that it is sending identical messages to me and my partner.

[herve]

Hi,

in the line :

$mailheaders = "From $sender_name\n";

it should be :

$mailheaders = "From: $sender_name\n";

Hervé.

[panosa73]

azkworld, ur right. There's something wrong with the $xHeaders variable.
$xHeaders = "From: $BEm\n\n";
When I remove it from the mail() function everything works fine.
I tested $BEm (echo "$BEm"😉 and it returned the e-mail address it was supposed to ([e-mail].)
So, I don't know what's wrong.
Thanks
Panos A

[azkworld]

Try this:
$header = "From: FirstName LastName <[e-mail]>\n"

Note 1, not 2 "\n"s at the end!

[panosa73]

$headers = "From: $BNa <$BEm>\n"; where $BNa is the 1st and last name and $BEm is the email address.
I guess I could just live the way it is, with out the $header, it doesn't really matter, but, I just don't understand why it won't work.
Thanks
Panos A

[rupertbj]

This is how i set mine:

$to = "[e-mail]";
mail( $to, $subject, $message, "$from\r\nX-priority: 1 (Highest)" ) or print "Error handling message. message not sent.";

does that help?

[jerdo]

Sounds like your host is using Windows? If so and they don't have PHP 4.3.0 you can't use some headers. Check this page to see what is and isn't allowed for Windows.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[panosa73]

jerdo,
my host uses unix and PHP 4.0.6.

rupertbj,
when instead of "from", I do "$from" (the way u do it), it sends the info in the body, in the subject line I still get "SYSTEM USER". Is this how it's supposed to be?
Thanks
Panos A