[RESOLVED] PEAR Mail, blank To: field?

RGM

My host was kind and installed Pear Mail on a Linux/Apache server for me and pointed me at:
http://www.phpmaniac.net/wiki/index.php/Pear_Mail for directions on how to use it. After a couple of re-installs to the server, it now works for me but with 1 last problem -- when my client picks up the test mail that gets sent, it is lacking the To: field (it is blank).:glare:

I'm using the script at that site in the section titled "Sending using authenticated SMTP". I'd ask there for help but it seems to be a new site and the community area of it is not working, so I hope someone here might have some pointers to help me out!

That script uses the parameter:
$recipient = "Leigh <leigh@no_spam.net>";
(I change that to my test smtp email account, but keep that exact format)

and uses it in the actual send portion of the script:
$result = $mail->send($recipient, $headers, $body);

and returns a value of 1 (and the email does indeed get sent). Anyone got any idea what's wrong with that script causing the received email to have a blank To: field? Looking at its headers, there is no To: field, either. TIA for any comments!

RGM

After much confusion my host found the problem referred to in my last post, so I will share it with readers who might have the same issue with the script pointed to in my last post. The section that reads at that site as:
$headers = array(
'From' => $sender,
'Return-Path' => $sender,
'Subject' => $subject,
);

should instead read:
$headers = array(
'From' => $sender,
'Return-Path' => $sender,
'Subject' => $subject,
'To' => $recipient
);

Umm, guess I shudda known that. If you use that script at that site also watch for a syntax error I found where a variable was assigned using "===" instead of "==". FWIW, I have no association with that website at all, but that script will work (does for me) if Pear Mail is installed and those 2 issues are addressed.

Happy New Year, all.

bradgrafelman

RGM wrote:
a variable was assigned using "===" instead of "==

Eh? Neither of those are assignment operators, though both are comparison operators. :p

At any rate, don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is) using the link on the Thread Tools menu above.

RGM

bradgrafelman;10937979 wrote:
Eh? Neither of those are assignment operators, though both are comparison operators. :p

At any rate, don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is) using the link on the Thread Tools menu above.

if (a === b){};
TRUE if $a is equal to $b, and they are of the same type. (introduced in PHP 4)
Ref: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php

Re-examing the code in that script it appears that the $result could be a return value of, say, "1" instad of 1 (differing types). Interesting, and I must retract having said it's a syntax error. Thanks for pointing that out!😃