PHP pipe to email and problems with extra bounce message

[Eric!]

My host has setup a pipe for an email address which sends a copy to a script.  Everything works fine, but despite all my efforts I keep getting a bounce email.  After researching this all over the web, I'm stuck.  Many people indicate that if the email server gets ANY kind of output back it generates a bounce error so they suggest using the -q option to supress the headers.

 

If I put this shebang at the top of the script:

#!/usr/bin/php

 

I get the following bounce message error:

 

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 

  pipe to |/home/user1100/public_html/script/autorespond.php

    generated by test@domain.com

 

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

 

------ pipe to |/home/user1100/public_html/script/autorespond.php

      generated by test@domain.com ------

 

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4

Content-type: text/html

 

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

[blah blah blah blah]

 

HOWEVER, If I put this shebang at the top of the script:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

 

I get this bounce message

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 

  pipe to |/home/user1100/public_html/script/autorespond.php

    generated by test@domain.com

 

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

 

------ pipe to |/home/user1100/public_html/script/autorespond.php

      generated by test@domain.com ------

 

 

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

[blah blah blah blah]

 

So it seems the PHP info from the CLI is suppressed, but I still get a bounce.  Does anyone have some ideas of what I could try to debug this problem, or better yet fix it?

 

(note: i've changed the email addresses and paths slightly to foil spambots)

 

[hamza]

My php.ini setting are this

--------------------------

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

 

SMTP = mail.technology-uprising.com

smtp_port = 25

 

; For Win32 only.

sendmail_from = ahtasham82@gmail.com

 

And error is

 

not able to connect to mail server

 

 

please help me i want to send a simple email using php mail function

thanks