MAIL() and post master general...

[Anon]

I am working on a project that needs to send mail to post master general. The function sends mail correctly to myself and other email addresses, but does not send to pmg. Sendmail is "sendmail -t -i" on my Linux server.

Here's the PHP code (this does not work):

$email_body ="X-PMG-Userid: sflc\n";
$email_body.="X-PMG-Recipient: [e-mail]\n";
$email_body.="X-PMG-Silent: 1\n";
$email_body.="X-PMG-IP: $ip\n";

mail ( "[e-mail]", 
        "subscribe",
        $email_body,
        "[e-mail]" );

Here's the CGI code (this works):

# Open a pipe to the sendmail program.
open(MAIL,"|$sendmail -t") || HTML_Error("Cannot run $sendmail");
print(MAIL "From: [e-mail]\n");
print(MAIL "To: listmanager\@subs.postmastergeneral.com\n");
print(MAIL "Subject: subscribe\n\n");

print(MAIL "X-PMG-Userid: sflc\n");
print(MAIL "X-PMG-Recipient: [e-mail]\n");
print(MAIL "X-PMG-Silent: 1\n");
print(MAIL "X-PMG-IP: $ip\n");
close(MAIL);

Anyone have any experience with PMG and mailing to them from a PHP script?

thanks!
- Dave

[brandonschnell]

here is a guess:

mail ( "[e-mail]",
"subscribe",
"",
$email_body);

the "X-PMG-" lines need to be sent as headers, and not part of the message. if it still doesn't work, have the cgi & the php script send you an email and see where they differ.

[Anon]

Ok - got it!

The mail server on PMG requires the content header to be expressed in the message.

$message = "Content Type..." as first line of body or part of header.

It's working now.

The CGI script worked, so wondering if there is a content header that is generated by default - ? - will investigate this further when I have time...

Thanks,
- Dave