Getting False Returned on Mail() Function

[hismightiness]

I am working on a small project which I was recruited for. It was supposed to be a simple 2 form thing, but i am stuck on the first form. No matter what, I get a "False" returned from the e-mail function, but the e-mail gets sent with all the expected information. How is that possible, and how can I account for it or fix it? Unfortunately, I really do not have any information about the hosting server. I just know it is Linux.

Here is a snippet of my code:

function send_home_quote($email_body, $name){
	# Sends an e-mail to the designated recipient(s) containing the form contents

// Assign all needed variable values...
$send_to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Subject Line";

// Create the e-mail headers
$email_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r \n";
$email_headers .= "To: $name <$send_to>\r \n";
$email_headers .= "From: Online Form <$send_to>\r \n";
$email_headers .= "Reply-to: " . $name . " <$send_to>\r \n";
$email_headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP Mailer\r \n";
$email_headers .= "Content-Type:  text/html; charset=us-ascii\r \n";


# Send mail
if (mail($send_to, $subject, stripslashes($email_body), $email_headers) == true) {
	return 1; // The mail function worked
}else{
	return 0; // The mail function failed
}
}

I have printed and print_r() all variables, and everything looks fine to me. The if statement at the end will tell the requesting code whether to echo() a failure or a success. I know the $send_to variables are repeated. I have to do that. If that is what you think is causing the error, I will try and do something else. I just will not be retrieving an e-mail from the visitor filling out the form. I should also add that this is an HTML formatted e-mail.

[yelvington]

You have spaces between \r and \n that should not be there. Might be a problem, might not be.

Have you tested a simpler invocation of mail() to ensure that PHP and sendmail are properly configured?

echo "returned value is: "
echo mail('[e-mail]', 'ping', 'pong');

Substitute a valid email address, of course.

[hismightiness]

Well, the simple one worked. That only leaves my code to be at fault. 🙁 Do my headers look right? (Besides the space, I fixed that).

[hismightiness]

Okay per the PHP documentation, I have ammended my headers to read like shown, but it hasn't changed the problem.

	// Create the e-mail headers
	$email_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
	$email_headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
	$email_headers .= "To: Person <$send_to>\r\n";
	$email_headers .= "From: Online Form <$send_to>\r\n";
	$email_headers .= "Reply-to: " . $_POST['hidName'] . " <$send_to>\r\n";
	$email_headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP Mailer\r\n";

[hismightiness]

Don't you love it when people answer their own questions??? For some reason, this server environment does not like me overwriting the TO header. Has anyone heard of that? It throws an error and gets held up for at least 20 minutes before getting sent out. Well. here is my code now for anyone who wants to see it (made the headers global because there are going to be several functions using the same headers):

// Create the e-mail headers
global $email_headers;
$email_headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$email_headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$email_headers .= "From: Online Form <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$email_headers .= "Reply-to: Online Form <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$email_headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP Mailer\r\n";

function send_home_quote($email_body){
	# Sends an e-mail to the designated recipient(s) containing the form contents
	global $email_headers;

// Assign all needed variable values...
$send_to = "[e-mail]";
#$send_to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Subject Line";

# Send mail
return mail($send_to, $subject, stripslashes($email_body), $email_headers);
}