php Mail ?

[jiehuang001]

When I try to use the following mail function to send email, but found it didn't work. Do I need some extra stuff besides the general php to do that?
mail($receiver, $subject, $message, "From: $sender");

For example, can someone make the following code work so that I will get an email seeming from an made up email account?

<?php

$sender = "[e-mail]";
$receiver = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Enter your subject here";
$message = "Enter your message here";

mail($receiver,$subject,$message,"From: $sender");

echo "The email has been sent.";

?>

[jjgobot]

Hi,

Were you able to get this working? I've got the same problem. I get an error:

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1

when trying to send an email.

[maqmus]

I've tried and it works for me.

What kind of error do you get?
Have you used mail() before?

[jiehuang001]

Then can you please make it send an email from "[e-mail]" to "[e-mail]"?

I didn't see any error message, but I could not get any email after clicking the submit button.

Thanks.

Jie

[slak]

Are you using a windows server?

If so, explicitly declare your smtp server (be it local or not) in php.ini.

[jiehuang001]

No, I am using a MacOS X.

[maqmus]

You can't use [e-mail] as sender, you need something like [e-mail]

[maqmus]

By the way, you should use it this way:

$sender = "[e-mail]"; 
$receiver = "[e-mail]"; 
$subject = "Enter your subject here"; 
$message = "Enter your message here"; 

if(mail($receiver,$subject,$message,"From: $sender")) 
{
echo "The email has been sent."; 
}
else echo "Error! Mail not sent";