FW: Getting mail() to work with YAHOO! and other mail services

Oops! I missed the last line of the send_mail() function when I copied and pasted. It ends with: return (mail("\"".$contactname."\" <".$contactemail.">\"", $subject, $message, $headers)); Thanks, again, for any help you can give. -- Rob Clockedile rclockedile@essaytech.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Clockedile [mailto:rclocked@maine.rr.com] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 4:05 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Getting mail() to work with YAHOO! and other mail services > > I have a script that is intended to email a user a new password, when they > have forgotten their old one. The script works perfectly, except when > being sent to my YAHOO! email address (and I am told the same is true for > Hotmail). There is no error message, and as far as the mail server is > concerned, the email is sent without a problem. It just never shows up on > the other end. > > The script is very simple: > > mail($useremail, $subject, $message, "From: > customerservice@essaytech.com\r\n", "Reply-To: > customerservice@essaytech.com"); > > I have tried various header configurations that I have found in the > documentation, and on other sites. For example, this send_mail() function > (which I couldn't get to send out any messages, at all). > > > send_mail("member@essaytech.com", $memberEMAIL,"Essaytech Executives", > $list, $subject, $usermessage); > > function send_mail($sendername, $senderemail, $contactname, > $contactemail, $subject, $message) > { > $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; > $headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; > charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\r\n"; > $headers .= "To: ".$contactname." < ".$contactemail." > >\r\n"; > $headers .= "From: ".$sendername."< ".$senderemail." > >\r\n"; > > > I am running PHP 4.2 on Windows XP, on a shared infrastructure at a web > host. I am relatively new to PHP (a couple of weeks), so any help that > anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > Rob Clockedile > rclockedile@essaytech.com