Different problem sending e-mail with PHP

[nmsejwaj]

I am trying to create a PHP mailer. however when the page runs, I recieve the following message:

forward: no home
forward: no home
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:40:45 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

cc2

This is the code I am running:

$MyEmail = '[e-mail]';
$Sender = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'This is a test';

$text = "
test
";

// comment the lines you don't want to use.
$headers = "To: " . $MyEmail . "\n";
$headers = "From: " . $Sender . "\n";
//$headers .= "X-Sender: ". $MyEmail. "\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n"; // mailer
$headers .= "X-Priority: X\n"; // Urgent message! Where X is Use 1, 2 or 3 One being urgent.
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $Sender . "\n"; // Return path for errors
//$headers .= "cc: [e-mail], [e-mail]\n"; // CC to
//$headers .= "bcc: [e-mail]\n"; // BCCs to
// If you want to send html mail, uncomment the line below and write html tags in your $text area.
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; // Mime type

$subject = stripslashes($subject);
$text = stripslashes($text);
@mail($MyEmail, $subject, $text, $headers);

//Simple error checking. This can be deleted but it's helpful to have.
if (mail($MyEmail, $subject, $text, $headers)){
echo "Thank you for your submission. Your scheduling request has been sent successfully. I will be in touch with you shortly";
}else{
echo "An unknown error has occurred request has not been sent. Please contact me at ";
}

I have never seen this error before. Any thoughts?

[weekender]

did a quick google search. From the below i'd say a) you're trying to send to someone else on the same server (and if you sent externally, it would work) and b) it's something to do with the users' home directory (on unix) not being set up properly or completely.

from http://www.busan.edu/~nic/networking/sendmail/ch25_07.htm

If all the .forward files listed in the ForwardPath (J) option (see Section 34.8.27) cannot be read, their absence is silently ignored. This is how sendmail behaves when those files don't exist. Users often choose not to have ~/.forward files. But problems may arise when users' home directories are remotely mounted. If the user's home directory is temporarily absent (as it would be if an NFS server is down), or if a user has no home directory, sendmail syslog(3)'s the following error message and falls back to the other directories in its ForwardPath (J) option:

forward: no home

and from http://www.gnomedia.com/cw/westhost/tips.php

Formmail.pl won't deliver emails, nor will PHP's mail() Trying to send email from a script sometimes fails for no apparent reason. In the log files are the lines: [...] SYSERR(root) forward: no home If the email is sent to an offsite mail address, then everything works fine. Solution: when you create the email account that will receive the email, the home directory is only created if you enable FTP. You can immediately disable FTP access, the home directory will remain.