PHP Mail Problem

[Jaelan]

Hey,
I'm trying to send out an automated mail from a php script. I know it's possible, but the problem is I don't know how. From reading various threads, I come up with the using the mail() function.

So I set various variables $mail_to, $subject, $message, $headers and pass them to the mail function.

It doesn't work...
even if I do as suggested in a related link:

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

Output is:
returned value is:

I'm thinking my problem is my sendmail is not set up correctly. My server is on gentoo linux. Can someone help me with this?

Jaelan

[planetsim]

Ok Firstly you arent suppose to echo the mail() function i dont think it will return anything except maybe a 1 on a successful send out.

take away the echo in front of the mail then try it.. Also check that the sendmail path is correct in the php.ini file.

[olaf]

you can use this instead:

if (mail('[e-mail]','ping','pong')) {
echo "mail send...OK!";

[Jaelan]

Heh, thanks for all the advice.

My problem was that sendmail wasn't properly configured (as I suspected) and I switched to postfix as it was easier to configure.

Thanks all...although I still can't seem to get it to send mail w/ html tags...

Jaelan

[TheSpeedOfDark]

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

    mail("[e-mail]", stripslashes($subj), stripslashes($bdy), $headers);

That'll do it for ya. You need to always set a header for html/text email. Of course, $bdy and $subj are variables equal to your subject and body.

(Read further in the forums if you are interested in sending multi part emails. That's good if you have some users who cannot view html, and others who can.)

Good luck

[Jaelan]

TheSpeedOfDark,

This is my e-mail code:

/* RECIPIENT */
 $send_to=$_POST['email'];

 /* SUBJECT */
 $subject="Subject of Email";

 /* MESSAGE */
 $message="Some message with html tags, such as <A></A>";

 /* HEADERS FOR HTML MAIL */
 $headers="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
 $headers.="Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

mail($send_to,$subject,$message,$headers);

The mail sends, but it shows the tags. Does stripslashes() affect that at all?

Jaelan

[TheSpeedOfDark]

hmm...Someone told me a while ago that you should just use
\n for those headers and not \r\n...I doubt that's your issue.

Make sure you use stripslashes, and make sure you are sending it to a html compatible email address (and that the email account doesn't have html disabled, or anything of that nature.)

Good Luck!