[RESOLVED] php mail with php4 (MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n)

Sherman

Hi, any of the oldtimers know if in php4 one has to do this diffrently to send mail:

$headers = "From: ".$yourmail."\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

mail("$emailaddress","$subject","$content", "$headers");

The mail function works in the server I'm working with but doesn't send anything if I add the two lines "MIME-Version..." and "Content-type..." to the $headers variable.

Trying to get my client to upgrade to php 5 but meantime wonder if anyone here remembers this issue with php4?

thanks in advance

bradgrafelman

AFAIK, nothing major has changed with the mail function in PHP.

Somethings you could try are:

Remove the \r\n from the last header in the list.
Change all \r\n line breaks to simply \n line breaks.
Check if mail() is returning false. Also ensure that display_errors is set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL (otherwise check your logs and let us know if PHP is reporting any errors/warnings/etc.).

blackhorse

also, change the order of headers. the order should not matter, but somehow someway it does on some servers. i never figure it out why.

such as

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$yourmail."\r\n";

Sherman

Thanks both of you for the help.
Tried all your good ideas and it looks like finally it works with the:

Change all \r\n line breaks to simply \n line breaks.

Thanks !!!