Problem With mail();

[eightmin]

Working on a site for non profit consumer organization. The site has a complaint form. When a complaint form is filled out, the script should send an email back to the user to let him know complaint was received. Another email is sent to notify the organization that a complaint was filed. The script also inserts the information into a MySQL database. My problem is that the email to the organization is not getting sent. The email to the user is sent out fine and everything else works. I researched the mail(); function at the php.net site and got the information from there. The code is as follows:

The first part of the code below is for sending the email back to the user to let it be known the complaint was received. This part IS working correctly:

$todays_date = date("F jS Y");
$to = "$email";
$subject = "Your Complaint Has Been Received";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "To: $first_name <$email>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Organization's Name <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$msg ="message to user goes here";

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

I ommited the message portion to keep post small.

Now this part WILL NOT send an email and I cannot find any reason why not:

$todays_date = date("F jS, Y");
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = " Complaint Has Been Filed";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "To: Someone <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $first_name $last_name <$email>\r\n";
$msg = "The following information has been submitted by $first_name $last_name";

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

[zapa]

look right, whats your error?

are you passing any " or ' in you msg text?

[eightmin]

One email is sent ok to the user but the other email will not send to the organization. Another problem is that the information on the email header ie From: and To: is not getting the correct information. I am totally puzzled and cannot find anything wrong with the code. I am getting pretty desparate because this form is on-line and people are filling out complaints but the organization is unaware because they are not being notified.

[scorpioy]

I'm also writing some code doing the similar things. I have trouble even in the first portion:

Originally posted by eightmin

The first part of the code below is for sending the email back to the user to let it be known the complaint was received. This part IS working correctly:


$todays_date = date("F jS Y");
$to = "$email";
$subject = "Your Complaint Has Been Received";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "To: $first_name <$email>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Organization's Name <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$msg ="message to user goes here";

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

The error I got is:

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [e-mail] in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\signinhelp.php on line 164

I need help, please.