Re: [PHP-WIN] req: help with mail on IIS 6

> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:53 GMT Niel Archer <[email protected]> wrote
> 
> > > Hi All: Just joined the list.
> > >
> > > I'm having problems configuring mail in PHP. I have PHP 5.2.9 installed on
> > > server 2003 std with sp2 installed. The default SMTP service is running.
> > > I'm running Wordpress without any problems, except for configuring mail.
> > >
> > > My php.ini file looks like:
> > >
> > > [mail function]
> > > ; For Win32 only.
> > > ;smtp = localhost
> > > ;smtp = 127.0.0.1
> > > smtp = 192.168.1.6
> > > smtp_port = 25
> > >
> > > ; For Win32 only.
> > > sendmail_from = [email protected]
> > >
> > > I've tried each of the three server addresses above, and none of them work.
> > >
> > > If I try to run a simple test like:
> > >
> > >     <?php
> > >     $to = "[email protected]";
> > >     $subject = "Test mail";
> > >     $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
> > >     $from = "[email protected]";
> > >     $headers = "From: $from";
> > >     mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
> > >     echo "Mail Sent.";
> > >     ?>
> > 
> > $headers must be terminated by "\r\n"
> 
> Thanks Neil...I went back to the php.net docs for "mail" and picked up their
> example, with this syntax:
> 
> <?php
> $to      = '[email protected]';
> $subject = 'Test mail';
> $message = 'hello';
> $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
>     'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
>     'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
> ?> 
> 
> (I've replaced the actual "to" and "from" to dummy addresses)...still doesn't
> work...I don't get an error when running the script, but no mail is sent.

Do not use to or from fields in the 'User <[email protected]>' , is
doesn't work on Windows.  If I recall correctly, the function silently
fails with these.

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Niel Archer