Mail() question

[amalosoul]

I am using this code to send an email to yahoo. Can please somebody tell me what I am doing wrong?
[code]<?php
$to="amalosoul@yahoo.com";
$subject="A new attempt";
$mess="This is a test message! \r\n http://army.ifastnet.com";
$timp=time();
$timp=date("r",$timp);
$headers="$timp \r\n To: amalosoul@yahoo.com \r\n From: myself@yahoo.com \r\n";

if(mail($to,$subject,$mess,$headers)) echo "ok!";
else echo "message not sent";
?>[/code]

Thank you in anticipation!

[tomfmason]

Are you getting any errors...?

Well I see that you are declaring the to twice. You do not need them in the headers. Also, most servers require that the address that the mail is being sent from to be a known email address i..e you@yourdomain.com, and that you declare the from in the first part of the headers.

Good Luck,
Tom

[Daniel0]

You need to put [tt]Date:[/tt] in front of time in the headers. Not sure if that is the problem, but try doing that.

[amalosoul]

First of all thank you for your replies.
Second of all I have tried this code as well but it still does not work:
[code]<?php
$time=time();
$date=date("r",$time);
$to      = 'amalosoul@yahoo.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Date: $date'."\r\n".
  'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
  'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if(mail($to,$subject,$mess,$headers)) echo "ok!";
else echo "message not sent";

?>[/code]

[redarrow]

can you send a message anyway?

have you setup php.ini to send messages?

[amalosoul]

My host says that it can send emails, and I believe him (he only said he cannot sent emails to hotmail.com and all these internet providers that have something to do with microsoft, if I am not mistaken, but he said nothing about yahoo.com)

[Daniel0]

Try this (from the manual) (edit the email to yours): [code]<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
  'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
  'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?> [/code]

If it doesn't work, then contact your host.

[amalosoul]

Ok, thank you very much for your pacience!

[tomfmason]

If you want to send html mail you may want to use these headers.

[code=php:0]
$to = "someone@something.com";
$subject = "Your Subject";
$message = "A simple <b>HTML</b> messsage";
$headers = "FROM: you@yourdomain.com\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: multipart/alternative;\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";
$headers .= "\r\n";
   
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
    echo "Your email has been sent";
}else{
    echo "We were unable to send your email. Please contact the web master";
}[/code]

[amalosoul]

Thank you for your reply as well! I will try all possible ways of sending mails:)!