Re: Problems with mail() function

I had smilar problems before and found out that I missed some "\n"s. It seems that you missed a "\n" at the end of headers. That might be a reason. Another solution might be replacing "\n"s with "\r\n". I heard in newsgroups and in some documentations that this might be problem in some systems. I recommend to read the source of message after you get it. It is a nce way to debug problems and gives out lots of information. (correct headres, messages etc..) Yours, -- Tolga 'thorr' Orhon ""Kevin Fogleman"" <kevin@nstrategies.com> wrote in message news:9egjrq$r15$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > The problems that I'm having with the mail function stem from the extra > arguments that I'm trying to pass it. What I'm trying to do is write a > script to mail links to interesting stories to other people. In doing this, > I want to make the mail appear that it came from the e-mail address of the > person who wanted to send the link. So, what I've tried so far is this: > > $message_subject="This message is a test"; > $extraparams="From: > ".$HTTP_POST_VARS['youraddress']."\nReply-To:".$HTTP_POST_VARS['youraddress' > ]."\nX-Mailer: PHP/". phpversion(); > > $message=$message_header.$HTTP_POST_VARS['message'].$message_footer; > $success=mail($HTTP_POST_VARS['email'], $message_subject, $message, > $extra_params) > or die("Whoops, looks like mail() isn't configured in > this installation of PHP!"); > > The message that I recieve when I run this script has a "From:" field > reading as the user that the script is running under on the web server, and > I recieve a blank message body, as well as no subject. > > I decided to try using the mail() function with just the first three > arguments (i.e. the destination address, the subject, and the message body), > and it kind of worked, meaning that it sent me a message with the correct > subject filled out, and the correct message body, but it was still coming > from the same address, the name of the web server user. Can someone help me > with placing the correct args in the 4th parameter to get mail() or Sendmail > or whatever to send a message with the correct return address and From: > field? > > Thank you, > > Kevin Fogleman > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >