A mail bug?

[JakkkeM]

Hi all,

 

I'm sending an email with php as a part of my user registration process, and for some reason the mail script begins to fail when I use my full desired email in my headers.

 

I use the standard PHP Manual headers for email:

 

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
   $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
   $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

   // Additional headers
   $headers .= 'To: Jake M*** <**********@gmail.com>' . "\r\n";
   $headers .= "From: CFS <noreply@crossfitst.com>" . "\r\n";

 

Now, if I make my last header:

 

$headers .= "From: CFS <noreply@crossfitstmarys.com>"."\r\n";

 

It fails! As soon as I put the m in on CrossfitStMarys it fails the whole script.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers.

 

P.S. I have real data in for my Jake M, just censored it out because I don't want everyone having my email haha.

[trq]

Is crossfitstmarys.com the domain of the server you are actually sending the email from?

 

What exactly do you mean by "It Fails!" ?

[JakkkeM]

Not at the moment it's not - but I'm using all different address' and it works.

 

I.e. crossfit.com worked

 

I have:

 

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "YES";
}else{
echo "NO";
}

 

To debug. Seems to work fine.

[JakkkeM]

By fail - echo no and not send the email.

[Muddy_Funster]

what's a vardump of the $headrs look like for each of one of the working examples and the non working example?

[JakkkeM]

Tried that.

 

The only "unusual" thing, was I expected it to print the <noreply@crossfitstmarys.com.au> on the page, but it gets eaten for some reason.

 

Nothing unexpected anywhere else.

[Muddy_Funster]

getting to see that output could help us here

[JakkkeM]

Link

[Muddy_Funster]

I tested the output and got this in the view source :

string(138) "MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
To: Jake M*** <**********@gmail.com>
From: CFS <noreply@crossfitst.com>
"
string(142) "MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
To: Jake M*** <**********@gmail.com>
From: CFS <noreply@crossfitstmary.com>
"

nothing being eaten anywhere

[JakkkeM]

None-the-less it's still not sending the message for some abstract reason...

[Muddy_Funster]

I seen in the image you popsted that you had changed the From text as well as the address, I assume you have tried it both ways?

 

Also, the other dmains that you are testing it from - do they exist? are they real domains or just something you made up?

 

have you tried the script from a server that has an MX record pointing to it from the actuial domain? if you have access to the domain name settings you can just point an MX record at your dev box's global IP tempereraly for testing purposes.

[JakkkeM]

Tried fake addresses, huge address' and all sorts...

 

For some reason, on some address' it removes the from header completely!

 

There doesn't appear to be any other patterns...

[Muddy_Funster]

you got me beat. It's just a shame that mail() doesn't do any really usefull error capturing. mybe you would be as well using the phpmailer lib?

[JakkkeM]

Yeah I'll give it a try.

 

It's so confusing because it seems so random... I thought perhaps there was a character limit on the whole from header but it doesn't appear to have one.

[jazzman1]

It's just a shame that mail() doesn't do any really usefull error capturing.

It does, there are log files into the server.

 

EDIT: By default a php mail function use a linux client called - sendmail.

Edited January 3, 2013 by jazzman1