problems with php mail()

[rdpnet]

Hi,

I'm all of three days experienced in this php thing. I was kind of forced into it whilst trying to connect to authorize.net via their AIM protocol from a windows system. Perl just wasn't getting the job done.

Anyhooooo....
Mission accomplished on that front. Posting test transactions and parsing the response without problems.

Now I'm trying to email a receipt to the customer and getting the following error:

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 503 5.5.2 Need Rcpt command. in D:\hshome\eliteent\rearlens.com\cgi-bin\auth\aim.php on line 282

I'm using the following syntax to send the mail:

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

Where $headers includes the FROM: field.

I've also tried adding a RCPT TO: field to the headers but that does not help.

My host's mail server requires smtp user/pass authentication when I'm sending mail from my laptop, but I don't know that it is the same server that php uses. The php config file shows the stmp server as localhost.

Here are some url's to help flesh this question out:

https://rearlens.com/test/index.cfm?fuseaction=buy

order form page

https://rearlens.com/test/cgi/auth/phpinfo.php
will get you a glance at how php is set up on my server

I do not have access to php.ini

Please help.
RDP Net

[mcrbids]

Check the value of the $to variable - it's probably null or undefined.

[rdpnet]

Thanks. That was it. I had defined the variable as $merchant_email and was setting $to=$merchantemail (forgot the underscore).

Cool! No more error! 😃

Now if I can just figure out where the emails are actually going, cause they're not showing up at the address set in $to hmmmmmmmmmm......

Any thoughts?:rolleyes:

[kylesite]

Is the variable merchant_email set inside "s?

Like this:

$merchant_email = "[e-mail]";
$to = $merchant_email;