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mail function

A while back I made a mail script using the mail() function and all worked well.

However now I can't get php to send any mail from a web-based form. The script below simply will not work

Code:

mail("emailaddress@isp","subject","content","From: nobody@nowhere.net\r\n");

Perhaps the problem is because my ISP upgraded to a newer version of php .

Any ideas to get this script working again?

I cant see a problem with your PHP code.
Have you tried it without the '\r\n' at the end, i know this shouldnt make a difference...

This is the link to the PHP mail functiop, it says its been the same from PHP3 -> PHP5

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

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I have tried without the \r\n. I've done just about everything I can think of but just can't get it to work.

Are there any other ways of sending form-based mail in php?

I ran the form-mail file with the php -f command and these are the error messages I got:
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 421: readcf: option RunAsUser: unknown user smmsp
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 440: readcf: option TrustedUser: unknown user smmsp
can not write to queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ (RunAsGid=0, required=51): Permission denied

Last edited by vvuiverine, November 26th, 2004 08:21 AM (Edited 1 times)

is it possible your host doesnt allow sending of email? you wmay want to ask them about that.

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the mail function is possible the easiest function! If that doesn't work, it's definately not your code but your hosts havnt setup the mail settings in the php.ini file

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