problems sending mail

[sabbagh]

RedHat 7.3
PHP 4.2.3
Apache 1.3.27
Postfix

Here is my code

<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "mailTest";
$message = "This is a Test.\n";
$headers = "From: [e-mail]";
if($test = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "<h3>OK</h3>";
}
else
{
echo "<h3>Error</h3>";
}
?>

if i send a mail from commandline it works fine.
The code stops in the line 6 and don't print the messages.

My php.ini parameters are:

SMTP=localhost
sendmail_path=/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

any idea???

---

José García Sabbagh
Mexico City

there are just 10 kind of people:
- those who understand binary
- those who don't

[sijis]

change this line:

if($test = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

to this

if($test == @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))

that should work.

i didn't know, but mail() returns a bool value (true or false) if the email was sent successfully, so that means that the the variable $test must have a boolean value (true/false), otherwise, it will always return false.

what you were doing was putting the result of mail into the value of $test, in otherwords you were giving $test a value as oppose to comparing its value... just a simple equal sign!

hope that helps.

[jstarkey]

In his code, there doesn't appear to be any reason to use '$test =' at all.

if ( mail(...) ) echo 'ok';
else echo 'no way jose';

should be all you need to test for true or false.

[sijis]

jstarkey
haha... very true...
DUH! me. 🙂