mail() Cc header driving me crazy...

four_out

Hi,

Tried everything but I keep getting a "Server error" whenever I use a Cc or Bcc header.
Tried all orders: no difference.
All other headers work fine.

Using PHP 4.2 and IIS5 on Win2K.

$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myemail>\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 2\r\n";

$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server";
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n";
//$headers .= "Cc: ".$ccmail."\r\n";

mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers)

This works, but if I uncomment the last $headers . line I get the "server error".

Please help before I realy lose it....
Thanx,

Jody

hermand

//$headers .= "Cc: ".$ccmail."\r\n";

should be

//$headers .= "Cc: ".$ccmail;

surely?

four_out

That doesn't do the trick... still the same.
For the moment I do it like this:

$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myemail>\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 2\r\n";

$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server";
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "To: <".$ccmail.">\r\n";
//$headers .= "Cc: ".$ccmail;

mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers)
So now first To adress is $contactemail and aditional adresses I put in the To header. That works...
🙂
But it sure isn't nice:mad:

So... if you anything else I could try....

melchior23

upgrade to 4.3.* = cc: is case senstive in 4.2.3 and bcc is not supported until 4.3 -----> i is havin similiar problems.... check the 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.

this however may not be the root of the problem... you may wish to check the contents of $ccmail
not sure bout this but maybe take the To: out of the headers as it is provided by the first argument in the function ...this could be the culprit...even though they are technically the same this could be conflict...the Error message that you are receiving may help in finding the cause ..if you could post that.

hope sommit i have said will help you.

BuzzLY

If melchior23's solution doesn't work, or you can't upgrade, try putting your Cc: before From:. I know, it's weird, but I had the same problem, and that seemed to fix it.

four_out

Thanx all!

melchior23 was right, I upgraded to PHP4.3.1 and Cc mail works great now!

All the header functions seem to work even on my Win 2K...
And the nice thing is: I got a better warning telling me wat was wrong.
After trimming the adress strings it worked!

So again THANX
Jody
🙂