Bug #6537 Updated: mail() does not seem to handle SMTP multi-line responses

ID: 6537 Updated by: mfischer@php.net Reported By: mlemos@acm.org -Status: Assigned +Status: Closed Bug Type: Mail related Operating System: Windows PHP Version: 4.0 Latest CVS (04/09/2000) Assigned To: david New Comment: This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/. In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. It's supposed to be fixed quite some time ago. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-10 01:26:38] david@php.net I have fixed this, and tested with manual input. Does anyone have a handy SMTP server that sends multi-line responses so I can test for real? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2000-09-04 16:19:00] mlemos@acm.org There has been so many people complaining about not being able to send messages with the mail() function on Windows that I decided to investigate. Apparently, it seems that it is not handling SMTP multi-line responses. Multi-line responses may be returned or not depending on the vendor of the SMTP server. The way it works is by returning a - character right after the response code instead of a space. When this is returned, it means that this is not the last response line. So, the SMTP client has to fetch the next response line until it finds the last one that has the same response code followed by a space. I don't use Windows, so I did not want to fix the problem because I would not be able to try the fix. Anyway, it seems that all the fixing that is needed lies within the Ack() function. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=6537&edit=1