Help with Mail Function

[vatsal06]

Hi I am newbie to php and am trying to do a site for my alumni

i downloaded a alumni script but am not getting a mail when a user registers. The code is as below:

$subject1="New Alumni registration";
$message1="A new member has registered on the alumni website \n\n First Name: $fname\n\n Surname: $sname\n\n Present Surname: $nsname\n\n Year left: $leave\n\n e-mail address: $mail\n\n Postal Address:\n$add";
mail($Mail, $subject1, $message1,"From: $mail");

I contacted my webspace provider and he has suggested to put as:

<?php
require_once "Mail.php";

$from = "name Sender <[e-mail]>";
$to = "name Recipient <[e-mail]>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$host = "mail.domain.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
  'To' => $to,
  'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
  array ('host' => $host,
    'auth' => true,
    'username' => $username,
    'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

 }
?>

How do i merge both the codes? Can someone please help. I tried doing but it is not working.

[ldougherty]

The first example is using PHPs mail() function where as the second is using Pear's SMTP class which allows you to specify an SMTP server when sending mail.

If you do have an SMTP server to send through this is the recommended solution for more reliable email delivery.

If you want to use the simple mail() class try using this, just replace the standard variables..

<?php
$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$from = '[e-mail]';
$message = 'hello';

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from"))
  echo "Mail sent";
else
  echo "Mail send failure - message not sent"; ?> 

[vatsal06]

I have file by the name of forgot.php and am using the following code:

<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$db=mysql_connect("$Sname","$Uname","$Pname");
mysql_select_db("$Dname",$db); 

if ($sub) {

   // send information to owner

	$sql="SELECT * FROM $Tname WHERE email='$imail'";
	$result=mysql_query($sql);
   if ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      	$subject="$School alumni register";
      	$message="$School alumni, this is your username and password which you will need to change your details or to send e-mails to other member.\n\n Username:   $myrow[username]\n\n Password:   $myrow[password]";
      	$host = "mail.greatindian.org";
		$username = "alumni";
		$password = "pass888";
	  	$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
  			array ('host' => $host,
    		'auth' => true,
    		'username' => $username,
    		'password' => $password));
		$mail = $smtp->send($imail, $subject, $message,"From: $Mail");

  ?>

I am getting the error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/lib/php/Mail.php on line 123

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/lib/php/Mail.php on line 151

I urgently need help!