Strange problem with mail()

Herk

Okay, I am at a complete loss why it seems like php is being 'picky' right now.

The function is:

function user_mail($tofunction, $titlefunction, $subjectfunction, $messagefunction, $fromfunction) {
  $message = "
<html>
<head>
 <title>".$titlefunction.$subjectfunction."</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style=\"font: 11px arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; text-decoration: none\">
".$messagefunction."
</p>
<p><font style=\"font: 9px arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; text-decoration: none\"><a style=\"font: 9px arial, sans-serif; color: #A7330C; text-decoration: none\" href=\"http://www.theherk.com\">TheHerk</a> &copy; 2002 website developement engine.<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-for the most simple website creation</font></p>
</body>
</html>
";
  $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  $headers .= "From: ".$titlefunction." Admin <".$fromfunction.">\r\n";
  if (empty($tofunction) || empty($fromfunction)) {
    return;
  } else {
    mail($tofunction, $titlefunction.$subjectfunction, $message, $headers);
  }
}

which works in all cases perfectly as far as I know... except for one. The case that does not work is when "sherwood@srt.com" is passed to it as $tofunction. All other email addresses work here just fine but not this one.

Example:

if ($sendregistration == 1) {
  user_mail($registrationuseremail, $head['sitename'], " - Registration", $style['registrationmail'], $head['siteadminemail']);
}

// where $registrationuseremail is what was just registered with (variable in question)
// $head['sitename'] is the name of the website  = "The Herk"
// $style['registrationmail'] is the message sent to all new registrants = "Test message"
// and $head['siteadminemail'] is the email address of the site admin = "herk@theherk.com"

If I change "$titlefunction.$subjectfunction" to "$titlefunction" or "$titlefunction."blah"" it works. But with two variables concatenated it will not send mail to "sherwood@srt.com".

Why?

Herk

paulnaj

This is a long shot but in this part ...

 
$headers .= "From: ".$titlefunction." Admin <".$fromfunction.">\r\n"; 
if (empty($tofunction) || empty($fromfunction)) { 
    return; 
  } else { 
    mail($tofunction, $titlefunction.$subjectfunction, $message, $headers); 
  }

... you use $fromfunction before you test to see if it's 'empty'.

Now, could it be that $fromfunction has not been defined for 'sherwood@srt.com'?

As I say, it's a long shot.

BTW, have you been looking at the resulting HTML source? Try looking with and without 'sherwood@srt.com'.

Paul.

Herk

Actually yes, I did try doing the mail outside of the check statement, and sherwood@srt.com was in fact there. I'm really at a loss why it mails when the subject does not have a concatenation in it.

Thanks for your reply.

Herk