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[goldberg]

Hi I am having some problems using the mail function with a form. I am getting this error message:

 

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 unacceptable mail address in ...

 

 

Here is my code($msg is defined elsewhere)

 

 

$e =$_POST[email]; 

$headers="From: ".$e."\n" 
    . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset; format=flowed\n" 
    . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" 
    . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" 
    . "X-Mailer: PHP\n"; 


mail("[email protected]","funding questionare",$msg,$headers); 

 

and also I know the $e var is working because I echo it and it looks fine.

I don't kow whats wrong please help!

 

Thanks - Goldberg ???

[simcoweb]

Try changing this:

 

$e = $_POST;

 

to this:

 

$e = $_POST['email'];

 

 

[goldberg]

Thanks, but that did not change anything... still getting the same error.

[cooldude832]

what is the ...

break your mail tag into two lines

<?php

$e =$_POST['emai'l]; 

$headers="From: ".$e."\n" 
    . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset; format=flowed\n" 
    . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" 
    . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" 
    . "X-Mailer: PHP\n"; 


mail("[email protected]",
"funding questionare",$msg,$headers); 
?>

 

tell me if its the first line or second line erroring

[goldberg]

The problem is in the second line when I break it up, I am almost postive that the problem is with $headers.

[duclet]

Change \n to \r\n

[goldberg]

Thanks but that didn't work either. Here is what I have now

 

$e =$_POST['email'];
$headers="From: ".$e."\r\n"
    . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset; format=flowed\r\n"
    . "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
    . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n"
    . "X-Mailer: PHP\r\n";


if ($short_ip != "203.144" && $short_ip != "212.138")
mail("[email protected]",

"funding questionare",$msg,$headers);

 

[duclet]

First, check to make sure that you are getting the correct value for $e and $charset by echoing them. If they are correct, then I don't think this is a PHP problem but I just run your code and it worked on my server.

[goldberg]

Thank you, I echoed them both and they work

[goldberg]

Turns out that the space between From:  and the " was screwing the whole thing up. It's working fine now like this

 

$headers = "From:".$e."\r\n";


if  ( 1==1)
mail("[email protected]","funding questionare",$msg,$headers);

 

thanks for your help!