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[SOLVED] php mail goes to inbox as a .dat file

jesushax

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Few more detail please...

 

The "mail" you try to sent get's attached as a .dat. What about the mail to which the .dat is attached? What topic does it have, what is in it's body and what does the .dat contain?

 

My guess (and it is only a guess, I don't know much about mail servers) is that the e-mail you sent is somehow faulty / incorrect and the server corrects this by attaching your faulty e-mail message to a correct formatted e-mail message...

 

The code might be helpful too :)

jesushax Advanced Member

jesushax

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heres the full page code

 

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/includes/connection.php');
session_start();
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/includes/header.php');

function ShowForm() {
?>
<form name="lostpass" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?action=lostpass">
<p style="padding:2px 0;">
Your Email Address :
<input name="txtEmailAddress" type="text" size="30"></p> 
<p style="text-align:center;"><input name="" type="submit" value="Reset My Password"></p>

</form>
<p style="padding:2px 0; text-align:center;">
<a href="/new/admin/index.php">Back To Login Form</a>
</p>
<?php
}

function createRandomPassword() {

    $chars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789";
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
    $i = 0;
    $pass = '' ;

    while ($i <= 7) {
        $num = rand() % 33;
        $tmp = substr($chars, $num, 1);
        $pass = $pass . $tmp;
        $i++;
    }
    return $pass;
}

switch(@$_GET["action"]) {
Case "noemail":
echo "<h3>Lost Password</h3>";
echo '<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#FF0000;">Error: The email address you provided does not exist.</span>';
ShowForm();
break;

Case "lostpass":
ini_set ("smtp.karoo.co.uk","*******");
ini_set ("sendmail_from","********");

echo "<h3>Lost Password</h3>";
$Email =  $_POST["txtEmailAddress"];

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblAdmin WHERE UserEmail='$Email' ") or die(mysql_error());

$rspass = mysql_fetch_array($sql);

if(mysql_num_rows($sql) < 1){
header("Location: ".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?action=noemail"); //address doesnt exist
}
else{
$ID = $rspass["UserID"];
$Username = $rspass["UserName"];

// creat password
$password = createRandomPassword();

$Newpass = md5($password);

mysql_query("UPDATE tblAdmin SET UserPassword='$Newpass' WHERE UserID='$ID'") or die(mysql_error());

$to = "$Email";
$subject = ": Your New Password";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Reset Password</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Your password for   Has been reset to the following</p>
<p>Your Username is: $Username</p>
<p>Your New Password is: $password</p>
<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
";// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";// More headers

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
header("Location: /new/admin/index.php?action=sent");
}
break;
default:
echo "<h3>Lost Password</h3>";
ShowForm();
break;
}
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/includes/footer.php');
s
?>

 

and

 

the .dat file has this info in

 

 

<html>

<head>

<title>Reset Password</title>

</head>

<body>

<p>

Your password for has been reset to the following</p>

<p>Your Username is: Alex</p>

<p>Your New Password is: d4r04krb</p>

<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>

</p>

</body>

</html>

 

thanks

jesushax Advanced Member

jesushax

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not sure if i get what yoru after here, but the email that is recieved is

 

From: info@domain.com

 

Subject: Your New password - as stated in the code

 

and the body

 

theres isnt one, the bosy is in the .dat attchement

 

Cheers

Wuhtzu Member

Wuhtzu

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If I were to debug the script I would cut to the bare bones and then start filling on until this strange behavior starts appearing...

 

Start out with this and get that to work:

 

<?php

$to = "$Email";
$subject = ": Your New Password";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Reset Password</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Your password for   Has been reset to the following</p>
<p>Your Username is: $Username</p>
<p>Your New Password is: $password</p>
<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
";// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";// More headers

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

jesushax Advanced Member

jesushax

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i just craeted a test page to send an email and unless i define the from address i get a php error

 

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\Websites\*****\test.php on line 23

 

so ehres the code i used, therse not problem with the code here

 

<?php 
$to = "alex@mydomain.com";
$subject = ": Your New Password";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Reset Password</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Your password for   Has been reset to the following</p>
<p>Your Username is: Username</p>
<p>Your New Password is: password</p>
<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
";// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <info@mydomain.com>' . "\r\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>

 

i think its the php.ini file need setting, would anybody know what settings id need to tell my domain host to do?

 

Thanks

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