prob with mail-command

thilopohl

PHP Version 4.2.2

see my code-fragment for understanding my problem

if ($email) {mail($to, "$subject", "$mailtext","From: $email" );}

it works fine. sending of the mail is succesfully; but after execution of this order the user on my website gets an echo:

"Who are you?: No such file or directory"

a friend told me to set an "@" in front of the mailcommand to supress any warning.

if ($email) { @mail($to, "$subject", "$mailtext","From: $email" );}

but this will not change the situation

any help?
Thilo

xblue

Hi,

I don't think that this line is causing the error message, sounds rather as if a file function is called with a wrong argument.

You could
- post the complete code (hope it's not too long). If you do, please don't forget to include it in [PHP] [/PHP] tags.

search for a call to one of the file functions close to the line given in the error message. If it's called with variables as argument, it might be helpful to echo the variables.

thilopohl

no, it's a very short one.
Perheps i should say, that anything was alright, since my provider changes anything. may it be a change of sendmail or mail configuration?

There is NO PHP file function that is called by the script.

if ($submit)
{
  if (strlen($text)<5) 
  {   echo "nothing wrote (<5 chars)<hr>"; 
  }
  else 
  {   if ($email) { mail("mail@adress.de","TEST","$text","From: $email"); 
                    echo "mail sent. <br> thank you <hr>";
                  }
  }
}
else
{

<html>
<head>
<title>Eingabe</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form" method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
<table>
<tr><td>EMAIL-ADDRESS</td><td><input type="text" name="email" size="20"></td></tr>
<tr><td>MY MESSAGE</td><td><textarea name="text" cols="60" rows="3" wrap="PHYSICAL"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="send"></td></tr>
</table>
</form></body></html>

xblue

yes, if this is all your code I admit that there is not a lot that could cause the error apart from the call to mail().

I'm really sorry but I don't see a reason for this error, though. I hope someone else will be able to help.

best luck!

thilopohl

thank you for your help.