IIS5 - PHP3.0.16 mail function error

[Anon]

Hello,

I have a strange problem with the mail function on php3.0.16 running IIS5.

When I configure php3.ini to use a mailserver other than localhost (the local machine is running an smtp service as well).

When I try to send an email using another smtp server than localhost two things happen:
1. On the webserver I get a dialog box: unknown has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.
2. On the browser requesting the page no data comes back. After a long time I do get the following: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: ERROR: could not get the task list

When I setup to mail using localhost I get an error in my browser: "Warning: Server Error in C:\pathtofile\phpinfo.php3 on line 14

My line 14 looks like: $test = mail("[e-mail]", "subject", "message");

Is anybody else having this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

[Anon]

i have the same problem but i use php4.0.1 so i think it's a problem in iis5 and not in php

[Anon]

Well, we can say that the "problem" can easily be fixed changing the php docs.
The mail function has four parameters, and the fourth parameter must be present on the function call, even if it's an empty one. It seems that the mail library isn't correctly placing an empty parameter there, so must be done on the script like this (from Lucas ' example):

$test = mail("[e-mail]", "subject", "message", "");

That should work.

[Anon]

Incredible!! That was it. Thank you so much!

[Anon]

Not for me...

Lucas Baltes wrote:

Incredible!! That was it. Thank you so much!