Bug #10136 Updated: Function mail() does not work properly

ID: 10136 Updated by: mfischer@php.net Reported By: arnaud@cenet.fr Status: Assigned Bug Type: Mail related Operating System: Win32 (2K and 9x) - IIS 5 & Apac PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 -Assigned To: hholzgra +Assigned To: mfischer Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-06-22 18:42:03] hholzgra@php.net windows mail code *badly* needs a rewrite ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-05 06:27:22] arnaud@cenet.fr OK, I found the problem, folks !! If you want to send messages in Cc: and Bcc: and personnalize to name of the To: recipients, I found a topic in newsgroup, you have to : put all adresses (including To:, Cc: and Bcc: adress) in the $to field of mail function and then in the header, you put in to: bcc: and cc: the correct adresses... By this way, the mail function will properly put the adresses in the right fields, example : $to = "arnaud@cenet.fr, admin@cenet.fr, test@cenet.fr" $from = "Test PHP <testphp@noreply.cenet.fr>\n"; $headers = "To: Nono <arnaud@cenet.fr>\n"; $headers .= "cc: Admin CEnet <admin@cenet.fr>\n"; $headers .= "Bcc: Hidden test <test@cenet.fr>"; mail ($to,"my subject","my (nice !) body","From: $from".$headers); It works... But now the real bug (yes it is !!) is when typing "Cc:" instead of "cc:" => It looks like there's a emalloc error allocating -875642131 bytes (the number is not ever the same)... Think I'll open a new bug entry !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-04 03:20:25] arnaud@cenet.fr Seems to work but i need to put addresses between <> for mail from: and rcpt to: fields... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-03 17:25:29] bbonev@php.net i'd suggest one thing - try this (it will give more light if the problem is in your mailserver): telnet localhost 25 helo there mail from: your@address.com rcpt to: dest@address.com data from: "your name" <ffgghjh@addresss.com> to: "name 1" <adr1@adr.com>, "name 2" <adr2@adr.com>, etc@other.com subject: some subject some nice body ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-03 09:57:57] arnaud@cenet.fr First, I tried making mail() function work() on a Win2k - IIS 5.0 server and on Win98SE - Apache 1.3.19 both with PHP 4.0.4pl1. there are several things wrong (so far it wouldn't be me the problem ;-) ) : - first : mail ("Arnaud <arnaud@cenet.fr>","A subject here","A message body here",...); (as mentioned in PHP manual), It won't work, i have a "Warning: Server error on blabla.php3:lineXX" but if the "To:" Field is replace by just an email adress : mail("arnaud@cenet.fr",....); this would work... So I can't send mails with the name of the recipients properly set (just their email adress)... NB: Multiple "To:" Recipients works but only with email adresses That's not the most important problem for me, the most important is Cc: and Bcc: won't work. The manual mentions to add From: Cc: and Bcc: information, in the fourth parameters (the headers)... So I tried : mail("arnaud@cenet.fr","A subject here","A (very nice !) body here","From: The Administrator <admin@cenet.fr>\nBcc: My Friend <myfriend@cenet.fr>\nCc: My Father <myfather@cenet.fr>"); it obviously doesn't work :-(( (that's why I'm writing you !!) There are several things to say : - The From: section of headers works well, nothing to say about it... No problem - Seems the Bcc: part is just ignored, nothing happen, no mail is sent to Bcc: address - For Cc:, when typed "cc:" (all lowercase) seems to be ignored but when typed "Cc:" => It looks like there is a memory leak or something like that both IIS and Apache return me a "emalloc() : unable to allocate -851230 bytes"... The number of unallocated bytes is not ever the same but this is the same error message... Extra info : - On both config, the mail server is a local mail server (FTGate 2.2.2.1) - It seems that this bug is similar to #9858 and #9859 in the bug database ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10136&edit=1