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  • Spartacus
    #1

    Problem with headers using mail() function

    Hello,

    I know there is lots of information out there and I've taken a look, but
    I want to learn how to do this myself. And I'm a beginner here and some
    of it I don't understand (so no flames, RTFM or GFGI please ;)

    Here's my function:

    function send_mail($to_n ame, $to_email, $from_name, $from_email,
    $subject, $message)
    {
    $thedate = date("r", time());

    $headers = "X-Mailer: PHPMailProgram/1.0\n";
    $headers .= "From: \"".$from_name. "\" <".$from_email. ">\n";
    $headers .= "Date: $thedate\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

    $from = "\".$from_name. "\" <".$from_email. ">";

    return mail( $from, $subject, $message, $headers);
    }

    My problem is that it will never arrive with the "Name" <email address>,
    and I can only make it work using email addresses without the names or
    the angle brackets around the email addresses. Once I tried printing the
    headers and the quotes and angle brackets turned up, but no names or
    email addresses. And once an email arrived but with nothing but angle
    brackets! (I wonder how that happened? The SMTP server must have
    stripped things out perhaps?)

    Thanks for your time in helping me with this,

    Spartacus
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    • ZeldorBlat
      #2
      Re: Problem with headers using mail() function

      On Jun 13, 7:06 am, Spartacus <nos...@nowhere .comwrote:
      Hello,
      >
      I know there is lots of information out there and I've taken a look, but
      I want to learn how to do this myself. And I'm a beginner here and some
      of it I don't understand (so no flames, RTFM or GFGI please ;)
      >
      Here's my function:
      >
      function send_mail($to_n ame, $to_email, $from_name, $from_email,
      $subject, $message)
      {
      $thedate = date("r", time());
      >
      $headers = "X-Mailer: PHPMailProgram/1.0\n";
      $headers .= "From: \"".$from_name. "\" <".$from_email. ">\n";
      $headers .= "Date: $thedate\n";
      $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
      >
      $from = "\".$from_name. "\" <".$from_email. ">";
      >
      return mail( $from, $subject, $message, $headers);
      >
      }
      >
      My problem is that it will never arrive with the "Name" <email address>,
      and I can only make it work using email addresses without the names or
      the angle brackets around the email addresses. Once I tried printing the
      headers and the quotes and angle brackets turned up, but no names or
      email addresses. And once an email arrived but with nothing but angle
      brackets! (I wonder how that happened? The SMTP server must have
      stripped things out perhaps?)
      >
      Thanks for your time in helping me with this,
      >
      Spartacus
      First, headers need to be separated by "\r\n", not just "\n". Try
      that and see if it works any better.

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        • Spartacus
          #3
          Re: Problem with headers using mail() function

          ZeldorBlat wrote:
          On Jun 13, 7:06 am, Spartacus <nos...@nowhere .comwrote:
          >Hello,
          >>
          >I know there is lots of information out there and I've taken a look, but
          >I want to learn how to do this myself. And I'm a beginner here and some
          >of it I don't understand (so no flames, RTFM or GFGI please ;)
          >>
          >Here's my function:
          >>
          >function send_mail($to_n ame, $to_email, $from_name, $from_email,
          >$subject, $message)
          >{
          > $thedate = date("r", time());
          >>
          > $headers = "X-Mailer: PHPMailProgram/1.0\n";
          > $headers .= "From: \"".$from_name. "\" <".$from_email. ">\n";
          > $headers .= "Date: $thedate\n";
          > $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
          >>
          > $from = "\".$from_name. "\" <".$from_email. ">";
          >>
          > return mail( $from, $subject, $message, $headers);
          >>
          >}
          >>
          >My problem is that it will never arrive with the "Name" <email address>,
          >and I can only make it work using email addresses without the names or
          >the angle brackets around the email addresses. Once I tried printing the
          >headers and the quotes and angle brackets turned up, but no names or
          >email addresses. And once an email arrived but with nothing but angle
          >brackets! (I wonder how that happened? The SMTP server must have
          >stripped things out perhaps?)
          >>
          >Thanks for your time in helping me with this,
          >>
          >Spartacus
          >
          First, headers need to be separated by "\r\n", not just "\n". Try
          that and see if it works any better.
          >
          Well, the \n worked fine on both my server and my local machine, but
          I've changed everything to \r\n anyway.

          Everything now works, strangely enough. I must have a dud server or the
          server's sendmail doesn't like names and angle brackets. Running my PHP
          mailer on my machine at home works just fine using the Windows SMTP
          server, name and angle brackets, no problems at all. Weird.

          Thanks for your help.
          Spartacus

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