sendmail using phpmail

Tue Dec 2 15:17:56 PST 2003

Thank you all for your help I now have found the problem and it is now working


>Greetings,
>
>We host a lot of virtual domain web sites on BSD boxes that are running PHP

>forms and sending out tons of email. Sometimes PHP doesn't figure out the right

>path for the sendmail program. So your first check is to make sure PHP is using

>sendmail correctly for your particular box. The builting phpinfo() command
puts 
>out a nice summary of your php build including all the build options. You need

>to make sure PHP was compiled with the correct path to sendmail.
>
>A php check web page:
>----- cut here -----
><?php phpinfo(); ?>
>----- cut here -----
>
>In the CORE PHP configuration section look for the setting 'sendmail_path'.

>Ours is set to '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i'
>
>You can test to see if PHP can send email using the code I included bellow.

>Given that PHP can send email phpmail should start working.
>
>I am not sure how phpmail handles the mail but we have found email works a
LOT 
>better if some extra header information is included. Here is the PHP code you

>can use to check to see if PHP is able send messages from a functioning email

>form on a BSD box:
>
>email.php:
>----- cut here -----
><?php
>   $_toEmailAddress = "info at somedomain.com";
>   $_ccEmailAddress = "";
>   //$_bccEmailAddress = "alternate at destination.com";
>
>   $_subject = $_POST[ "subject" ];
>   $_comments = $_POST[ "message" ];
>   $phone = $_POST[ "phoneNumber" ];
>   $name = $_POST[ "name" ];
>   $_from = "\"$name\" <" . $_POST[ "email" ] . ">";
>	
>	if ( $_POST[ "cc_me" ] == "on" ) {
>	  $_ccEmailAddress = $_from;
>	}
>
>   $message = "\n\nName: " . $name . "\n";
>   $message .= "Email: " . $_from . "\n";
>   $message .= "Phone Number: " . $phone . "\n";
>   $message .= "\nMessage: " . $_comments . "\n\n";
>
>   $_headers = "";
>   //$_headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
>   //$_headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
>   $_headers .= "From: $_from\r\n";
>   //$_headers .= "To: ".$_toEmailAddress."\r\n";
>   if (! empty($_bccEmailAddress) ) {
>       $_headers .= "BCC: ".$_bccEmailAddress."\r\n";
>   }
>   if (! empty($_ccEmailAddress) ) {
>       $_headers .= "CC: ".$_ccEmailAddress."\r\n";
>   }
>   $_headers .= "Reply-To: $_from\r\n";
>   $_headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
>   $_headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
>   $_headers .= "X-Mailer: Hero Network Email System";
>
>   $mailresponse = mail("$_toEmailAddress",
>                        "$_subject",
>                        "$message",
>                        $_headers
>                        );
>?>
>----- cut here -----
>
>email_form.html
>----- cut here -----
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
><html>
>   <head>
>     <title>
>       Untitled
>     </title>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <form action="email.php" method="post">
>       <table border="0" width="383" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" 
>align="center">
>         <tr>
>           <td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:

>12px; color: #333366;" align="right">Name:</td>
>           <td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="name" size="20"></td>

>         </tr>
>         <tr>
>           <td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:

>12px; color: #333366;" align="right">Email:</td>
>           <td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="email" size="20">

><img src="img/required.gif" alt="Required" width="9" height="8"></td>
>         </tr>
>         <tr>
>           <td colspan="2" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:

>12px; color: #333366;">Send a copy of this message to me too: <input 
>type="checkbox" name="cc_me" checked="" value="ON">
>           </td>
>         </tr>
>         <tr>
>           <td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:

>12px; color: #333366;"><p align="right" style="text-align: right">Phone:</p></td>

>           <td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="phoneNumber" 
>size="20"></td>
>         </tr>
>         <tr>
>           <td colspan="2">
>             <br>
>             <p style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color:

>#333366;">
>               To best route your email, please select the most appropriate

>category:
>             </p>
>             <select class="greySelect" name="subject">
>               <option class="optionRed" value="Request Information" 
>selected>Request information</option>
>               <option class="optionRed" value="Owner Contact Request">Send

>Message Directly To Owner</option>
>               <option class="optionRed" value="Requesting 
>Something">Other</option>
>             </select><br>
>             <br>
>
>             <p style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color:

>#333366;">Input message here.</p>
>              <textarea class="input_text" rows="20" cols="50" 
>style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color: navy; 
>scrollbar-base-color:pink;scrollbar-arrow-color: #ee0000;" name="message" 

>size="15"></textarea>
>             <p align="center"><input type="submit" value=" Send Request "

>name="Submit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 13px;

>color: #ffffff; background: #006633;"></p>
>             <br>
>             <br>
>             <br>
>           </td>
>         </tr>
>       </table>
>     </form>
>   </body>
></html>
>----- cut here -----
>
>Cheers,
>Scottie
>
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