php mail

[suyesh.amatya]

<?

ini_set('smtp_port','25');

if(mail("abc@hotmail.com","hi","test mail"))

echo 'success';

else echo 'failed';

?>

 

With this script i am not being able to send the mail...is there anything wrong here???

[JonnoTheDev]

Add mail headers. Also I have sometimes had to use the -f switch (see mail() function) on certain web hosts

 

	$from = "me@mydomain.com";

	$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain;\r\n";
	$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
	$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
	$headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n";
	$headers .= "From: \"My Company\" <".$from.">\n";
	$headers .= "Reply-To: \"My COmpany\" <".$from.">\n";

	mail("to@whoever.com","subject","message",$headers,"-f".$from);

[JonnoTheDev]

Check your mail log to see if the message is gone.

Linux: cat /var/log/maillog

[suyesh.amatya]

if i dont have any mail server, cant i send the mail with this php mail function..

i think it should have been sent by just using the mail function.

[JonnoTheDev]

Never tried from a standalone pc!

Always developed on *nix systems. Mail server would be sendmail or exim, etc..

 

Check out mail() on php.net

If you are a windows user:

The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket

 

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[Orionsbelter]

try this tell me if it works

 

    $subject = "[sUBJECT HERE]"; 
    $message = "[MESSAGE HERE]"; 
     
    mail([email HERE], $subject, $message, 
        "From: [YOUR NAME HERE]"); 
    echo 'A Email has been sent to [email HERE]'; 
[code]

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[suyesh.amatya]

doesnt work either...how can sending a simple mail be so complicated///

[JonnoTheDev]

You musn't have any MTA (mail transfer agent). See my post above. If you are using Outlook on your PC you have to setup a mail account i.e. POP3 suppliying a mail server, username, password, etc so you can send & receive mail.

The php mail function() cannot guess this for you!