mail() Not working

[TheGnome]

Ok.. I posted a thread earlier about not being able to get some form input from flash to send out thru a simple mail() script. I managed to fix that. However, I'm back to my real problem. I can't get the mail() to send mail using this script on my dedicated server2003 machine:

<?php
mail("[e-mail]", $_POST['subject'], $_POST['message'], "From: PHPMailer\nReply-To: " . $_POST['from'] . "\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?> 

But it will send me mail when I use a simple test script:

<?php
  mail("[e-mail]", "test message", "test message", "From: [e-mail]");
  print "MAIL SENT";
?>

😕

All works fine on my shared hosting server. So I'm at a real loss here. And need a solution pretty quik.

[Weedpacket]

From the mail manual page: "Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n)" (as per RFC2822). Try that and see if the mail is sent (look to see if the function returns true instead of just assuming that it worked).

[TheGnome]

Sorry for being new at this. I have looked around for something to reference for where to insert the CRLF's.. but honestly I'm not sure where they need to inserted.

And I dont know what you mean by assuming.? What I stated earlier I know to be facts.. and again I'm new at this so I'm not really sure how to check if things are returned true. I know I get the email with simple mail script.. but I dont when trying to pass the varibles. However on the linux box... it works fine.

[Weedpacket]

You're using \n to separate the mail headers. Try using \r\n (see almost any of the examples on the mail manual page).

mail() will return false if PHP failed to pass the mail to the mail server, and it will return true if it succeeded. Like the manual says: "Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise." Right now you're not checking whether it did or not, but just saying "MAIL SENT" whether it was accepted or not. Of course, as the manual (again) notes, " It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for delivery, it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended destination."

[TheGnome]

Ok. So I have tried it using the \r\n and still a no go. The MAIL SENT is just there because it was in the snipplet I used. But the email address I have been testing this on.. is on another dedicated, and I actually do get the email. ( physically )

My concern here is that maybe I dont have something installed correctly on the server2003 machine. I'm just not experienced enough to know. But from everything I have read, I would think that if the script with MAIL SENT in it works... the other should also.