mail() problem

[harlowhair]

hi,

I am trying to send emails from a website using the mail() function, but keep getting the response

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 551 Bad Recipient in \nas03\domains\b\brcs.co.uk\user\htdocs\underdev\final\simplemail.php on line 12

most of the emails I need to send are MIME encoded, but I have tried with a very simple email (just one line plain text) and I get the same problem. The server is running Linux with sendmail, and I have tried specifying the From address in every way I can think of. Anyone have any ideas????

thanks

[harlowhair]

By the way, I am running PHP with Win2K apache on my local machine, and I'm pretty ignorant about sendmail - is there any basic differences that I should know about?

[axo]

the basic difference is that without sendmail installed you won't be able to send mail using the mail() function from your local machine 😉

[rich_d]

Very true axo, although I'm mystified as to why it'd them a "Bad User" error. You do need an SMTP server installed locally but it sounds like it got past this stage (possibly). Might be worth posting the part of your code that sends the email.

Cheers,

Rich