[RESOLVED] mail() Command

[rafstar]

I have an HTML page that has a form on it and a Submit button that brings up the following script located in a different php file:

<?php

$txt = "First line of text\nSecond line of text";

// Use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters

$txt = wordwrap($txt,70);

// Send email
mail("[e-mail]","My subject",$txt);

echo "done";

?>

I do not get an error message, however I do not get the e-mail to send, either. I originally had a much more complicated script which passed variables from the HTML page to the PHP script, but have simplified things by copying a script I found on the Internet to get the e-mail to send then then I will build on it from there. I know that I have spelled the php file name correctly in the html file for the form action statement because I do get the "done" statement to print in the echo command.

I am building this feature on a laptop that runs Windows XP, IIS, Outlook Express and Outlook. My questions are as follows:

Can I get this function to work with my configuration of do I need another SMTP program. I have researched this all day and it seems like I need a sendmail utility. I have updated my PHP.ini file with the following parameters:

SMTP =localhost
smtp_port=25

In short, I need to know if the mail() function will work on my laptop with a standard XP OS, IIS and using Outlook or Outlook Express. If it will work, what do I need to do, load or buy to make it happen.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Bob

[Kudose]

You are missing the required FROM header.

i.e.

mail("[e-mail]","My subject",$txt, "FROM: Me <[e-mail]>\r\n");

[Kudose]

Also, in regards to needing a MTA, I would look at XAMPP for Windows. It comes with Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Mercury MTA, FilezillaFTP.

http://www.apachefriends.org

[rafstar]

Kudose,

I added the From header like you suggested and it still did not work. After two days of banging my head against the wall, I narrowed down my problem to the IIS Virtual Server. I did a search on Virtual Server and found a posting you did some time ago suggesting you change the SMPT=smpt.cox.com (or something like that) in the php.ini file. I change my SMTP setting to smpt.hughes.net and it worked perfect. Thanks for the posting to my question and the other postings you have done in the past.

Thanks again.

[bradgrafelman]

Don't forget to mark this thread resolved.

[rafstar]

Bob