mail() error on IIS

mr_zog

I have just moved an application from testing (in my safe controller little office) to a near production status. I am testing and a page that sends the results for a forgotten password is giving the following error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 503 5.5.2 Need Rcpt command.

Any ideas on what could cause this.

here is the code from the page for the mail() command

mail($custemail, $subject, $mailcontent,"$fromaddress");

Thanks in advance.

mahers

Try

mail($custemail, $subject, $mailcontent,"From: $fromaddress");

mr_zog

I should have made that more clear.

The $fromaddress variable is assigned the value:

$fromaddress="From: $utilityemail";

Any other thoughts?

mahers

If the PHP code seems correct, could it possibly be a misconfigured server?

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/listowners/2003-01/1041565488

mr_zog

I have looked at the server config and it seems OK BUT i saw this in the PHP manual:

Warning

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 am using PHP 4.3 but I am a little unsure of what MTA to use with IIS. On a *nix box this would typically be sendmail.

And ideas on this?