Proplem with Bcc: and Cc: using Mail function

[adamgeorge]

Hi, I'm trying to send Emails using the mail() function, like this:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: MRCICT Administration <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";

mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

So what the problem is that the bcc, does nothing at all, and I get mail delivery failure messages back for the cc field.

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<Cc: [e-mail]>
(reason: 501 Invalid Address)

It stuffs up the Cc email addresses.... why the heck is it appending Cc: to the email address? at least that's what I assume that error message means. It's trying to send a message to "cc: [e-mail]" ... which doesn't make much sence cause emails don't have spaces...

anyway, I've been looking on the forums and at php.net but haven't been able to find what the problem is....

If I ommit the cc and bcc headers, the email sends correctly to the destination in $email. ... so I'm not really sure what the problem is...

I don't think it has to do with spam settings or anything on the mail server...

If anyone could help out that would be great. Thanks.

• Adam 🙂

[adamgeorge]

I found this on php.net:

The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine). Second, the custom headers like From:, Cc:, Bcc: and Date: are not interpreted by the MTA in the first place, but are parsed by PHP. PHP < 4.3 only supported the Cc: header element (and was case-sensitive). PHP >= 4.3 supports all the mentioned header elements and is no longer case-sensitive.

I don't know what a MTA is .... some sort of mail thingamajig 🙂

anyway... my php version is 4.2.3 .... so that's why the bcc isn't working.

But the cc should still work... I don't understand what's going on with it.

thanks
- Adam 🙂

[adamgeorge]

Originally posted by adamgeorge

anyway... my php version is 4.2.3 .... so that's why the bcc isn't working.

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I just looked on php.net ... there is no Php 4.3 ... what are they talking about?

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? Anyone know where I can get it?

Ta.

• Adam 🙂