Mail Function only sends with headers.

Kold

Hello.

I copied the sample code regarding the use of headers to allow HTML to be used in emails directly from the php.net website.

The script ran fine on my test server, but now i have it at its 'real' location, emails will only ever send if there is no header included. Otherwise, only a few people get the emails.

Any ideas?
Thanks!!!

bpat1434

You may wish to look into PEAR if it is available to you. You can do better debugging and more with the mail function. I find it much easier to use and implement.

PEAR

Also, have you checked to make sure everyone can receive HTML mail, and that your server can send it?

~Brett

ab4net

make you question more clear ... please ...
is it about how to make the mail function sends HTML?
or some thing else ..?

Kold

I decided to take the pear route, however it still does exactly the same thing;

    require_once('Mail.php');      // These two files are part of Pear,
    require_once('Mail/mime.php'); // and are required for the Mail_Mime class

$from = "MY EMAIL ADDRESS";
$subject = "MY SUBJECT";

$headers = array('From'    => $from,
                 'Subject' => $subject);

// Plaintext version of the email to be sent
$textMessage = "This is a test text email";

// Here we create the HTML version of the email to be send, using
$htmlMessage = "<b>This is a test html email</b>";

$mime = new Mail_Mime();
    // create a new instance of the Mail_Mime class

$mime->setTxtBody($textMessage);
    // set plaintext message
$mime->setHtmlBody($htmlMessage);
    // set HTML message

$body = $mime->get();
    // Build the email message

$hdrs = $mime->headers($headers);
    // Build headers

$params['host'] = 'smtp.MY_ISP.co.uk';
$params['port'] = 25;
$mail = &Mail::factory('smtp', $params);
    // Creates an instance of the mail backend

$mail->send($to, $hdrs, $body);
    // Send email

It seems to send emails to myself (ISP address), and most others fine, however one of my own domain names, and hotmail do not receive the emails. If these 2 dont, then I am sure there will be others.

Any other ideas??
Thanks!!

bpat1434

Have you tried setting the parameters?

$params = array('host' => 'mail.domain.com',
                'port' => 25,
                'user' => 'username',
                'pass' => 'password',
                'auth' => TRUE);

That was my problem with getting external mail to work.

~Brett

Kold

Thanks. I will give it a try.

The site was released last night, and I managed to work around the problem by using the mail() function and 'text/plain' in the header.

It appears a couple of ISP's didnt like my headers :queasy:

The main reason I wanted HTML was to incude links in the email message, however most mail clients do this automatically with plain text anyway!

Thanks for your time!