mail() problems

[Anon]

Hi,
I've got at problem with the mail() function.

I use the following code:
<?php
$message="Test";
mail("[e-mail]", "Emne", $message) or die("Could not send mail!");
?>

And get the following error:
Warning: Failed to Connect in f:\wwwroot\testmail.phtml on line 33

My php.ini looks like (the smtp-part):
SMTP=smtp.worldonline.dk
sendmail_from=[e-mail]

I use Apache webserver and PHP 4.01!

Does anyone know what my problem is?

Kenneth

[Anon]

Something I read on another forum (don't remember right offhand where.. maybe this one?)..

To use the mail() function of PHP on Win32, you will need to run a SMTP server on the machine processing the PHP.. I just wrote my own SMTP socket instead..

[Anon]

It seems to be right!

I just uploaded the page to at Linux/Apache webser, and it works just fine.

Thank you very much!
You saved the day...

Kenneth

[Anon]

I had the very same problem but with some help of the PHP.net reference guide was able to solve it.

It says there that you CAN use 4 arguments (You can insert headers in the mail with the fourth) and I noticed that if I used 4 arguments my function would work (didn\'t matter if I had my own SMTP script/server)

[Anon]

I've tried it out, using this code:

<?php
$message="";

print "Her begynder ekstern fil!";

$fp = fopen("test2.htm", 'r') or die("Could not open file!");
while(!feof($fp))
{	$line = fgets($fp, 2048);
	print "$line";
	$message .= $line;
}


print "Her slutter ekstern fil!";

$headers = "From: Kenneth Kryger Sorensen <[e-mail]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: <[e-mail]>\n"; 
$headers .= "Return-Path: <[e-mail]>\n";  
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

mail("[e-mail]", "Emne", $message, $headers) or die("Could not send mail!");

?>

But it only worked on a Linux/Apache server!
Is my headers wrong?

Kenneth

[Anon]

Kenneth Sorensen wrote:

$headers = "From: Kenneth Kryger Sorensen <[e-mail]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: <[e-mail]>\n"; 
$headers .= "Return-Path: <[e-mail]>\n";  
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

---

You should not say:
$headers = "blah";
$headers = "blah2";

now headers ONLY contains: "blah2"

This is a line of code I use:

mail("e-mail","Subject","Content","From: Dirk\nReply-To:$email");

this piece of code works, I noticed you already configured your PHP.ini so that SHOULD work.

[KoshNaranek]

His "$headers .=" is totally correct.

"$headers .=" means "add to string $headers"

That's ok and will work.

It depends, what kind of "mailer" you are using. sendmail requires "\r\n" at the end of the header-Line.

on my linux-box with sendmail this works:

    $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $headers .= "From: $sentby <$sentby>\r\n";
    @mail("$sendto", $msubject , $sendmsg, $headers);

Don't ask me "win32"-stuff 😃 a webserver with php on windows is always a pain in the ... :p I'am NT-Admin... but for php-coding i prefer a linux-box