unable to send html formatted email

[Paul_Ferrie]

Hi guys,

This is a new server that i am testing the mail function on so i reckon that it maybe a setting in the php.ini. I had a look at the file but couldn't see anything obvious.

I am hoping one of you will know.

The script i am trying to use.

$headers  		= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers 		.= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers		.="Message-ID: <". time() .rand(1,1000). "@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">". "\r\n";
$subject1 = "test email";
$toaddress = "[e-mail]";
$bod = "blah blah blah";
$meEmail = "[e-mail]";
$ok = mail($toaddress, $subject1, $bod, $headers . "From: ".$meEmail." <".$meEmail.">");
if($ok){
echo "email sent"."    ok=".$ok;
}else{
echo "Error sending email";
}

When i run the script it say that the email has went through but i never receive it.

If i run a simple script like below it goes through and i get the email.

mail("[e-mail]","subject matter","some message");

[Stryker250]

ok you said it is a new / different server. so im assuming that you have run this script before, on your previous server. and i guess it worked.

anyway...there are a difference with how sendmail is setup on various servers. some may require that you use \r\n and others use just \n because they automatically convert it to \r\n.

some may say its a poor configuration but i jsut think that no 2 servers are always exactly the same 😃

if that is not your probelm try running the script without specifying the message-id.

$headers          = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers         .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers        .="Message-ID: <". time() .rand(1,1000). "@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">". "\n";
$subject1 = "test email";
$toaddress = "[e-mail]";
$bod = "blah blah blah";
$meEmail = "[e-mail]";
$ok = mail($toaddress, $subject1, $bod, $headers . "From: ".$meEmail." <".$meEmail.">");
if($ok){
echo "email sent"."    ok=".$ok;
}else{
echo "Error sending email";
}