User Contributed Notes
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10-Nov-2001 09:35 |
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For Windows users, you can likely set the SMTP directive in the php.ini
configuration file to your isp's SMTP mail server - the same as you use
for outgoing mail in your email client (Eudora, Outlook, etc.) . However,
check with your ISP before doing this!
eg
SMTP =
mail.your_isp.com
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[email protected]
31-Jan-2002 03:26 |
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the 'sendmail_from' string is the default 'from' address supplied with any
outgoing mail if no other 'from' address has been supplied in the header
section of the mail() function. In other words, setting the 'from' address
in the mail() function overrides this setting.
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19-Feb-2002 01:23 |
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After guessing about an hour I found out that for my qmail installation
only the following php.ini setting works:
sendmail_path
=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
Woutjan Branderhorst.
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[email protected]
23-Feb-2002 12:03 |
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Check out Zend.com's code gallery under EMAIL, look for SMTP.
with
the new class you can specify different hosts (with respective l/p)
anytime you wish.
good for guys who hasn't got the mail() enabled
(i think) but can at least open sockets.
again, i'm green at this,
might be incorrect.
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[email protected]
03-Apr-2002 05:58 |
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Hi there,
here is a little snippet that can be used in your mail script
in order to check if the mail was really sent from the domain the message
originated from:
// array for allowed domains (lower case
please)
$referers = array('php.net', 'www.php.net',
'us2.php.net');
// add upper case referrers
$size =
sizeof($referers);
for($i = 0; $i < $size; $i++){
$referers[] =
strtoupper($referers[$i]);
}
// check referers
for($i = 0; $i
< sizeof($referers); $i++){
if(substr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER'], 7, strlen($referers[$i])) ==
$referers[$i]){
$bad_referer = FALSE;
break;
}
else{
$bad_referer = TRUE;
}
}
if($bad_referer){
header('Location: );
exit;
}
I added the upper case domains, since once in a while
surfers tend to write in all-caps.
Hope that helps someone
:-)
DrTebi
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[email protected]
05-Apr-2002 02:28 |
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Linux
Known situation mail() not work, but why ???
Try send a
simple mail from shell
root@alpha:~# sendmail [email protected]
strange
error ???
collect: Cannot write ./dfg35A7vav022304 (bfcommit,
uid=XXX, gid=XXX): Permission denied
queueup: cannot create queue
temp file ./tfg35A7vav022304, uid=XXX: Permission denied
Don't mess
with permissons on /var/spool
/var/mail /var/spool/mqueue
Just set
them follow the instructions from sendmail readme
It seems that when
sendmail runs not like a daemon ( without -bd or -bD options ) it doesn't
use corect QueueDirectory from /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
The solution
is
set this line in php.ini
;For Unix only.You may supply
arguments as well (default:'sendmail -t
-i').
sendmail_path="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/"
That's all. mail() now
work fine :)))
Hope this will save up somebody's time, because i spent
a lot of hours in digging and tearing my hair (and my mother will colapse
if she hear what a words i use :)))
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12-Apr-2002 03:35 |
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As noted above sendmail_from is only used on MS Windows, to change the
default sender on unix you must add -f to sendmail_path. For example in a
<VirtualHost> directive:
php_admin_value sendmail_path
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f [email protected]"
would
set the default return-path for mail from that virtual host.
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[email protected]
20-May-2002 09:21 |
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Dear all,
Setting up a system which will ask a new member to confirm
he asked for it
by mailing him I experienced a problem. If a new member
fills in a Hotmail
e-mailaddress he will receive my mail in his Junk
Mail directory.
Many tips I found where telling te configure the
php.ini on my server but
that is not enough. I use Apache on a Win32 so
some things will be different
for you Linux people but the problems I
experienced do not have anything to
do with that I believe.
But,
configure your php.ini setting the mail functions, for Win32:
SMTP
= mail.yourisp.com
sendmail_from =
[email protected]
Now the most important.
When using
mail() you should insert headers, and not just a few!!!
I give you an
example I'm using.
Very important is also to include the ' To: '
header. I forgot this and when
I put it in my code Hotmail didn't
refuse my e-mails anymore. Only when
people have there Junk Mail listed
as "Exclusive". But when configured
"High" it will
go ok.
Here the example:
$myname = "Me
Myself";
$myemail =
"[email protected]";
$contactname = "Mister
Contact";
$contactemail =
"[email protected]";
$message = "hello from happy
me";
$subject = "A mail not refused by
Hotmail";
$headers. = "MIME-Version:
1.0\r\n";
$headers. = "Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers. = "From:
".$myname."
<".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers. = "To:
".$contactname."
<".$contactemail.">\r\n";
$headers. =
"Reply-To: ".$myname."
<$myreplyemail>\r\n";
$headers. = "X-Priority:
1\r\n";
$headers. = "X-MSMail-Priority:
High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My
Server";
mail($contactemail, $subject, $message,
$headers);
I hope this helped someone.
Godfried van
Loo
The Netherlands
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[email protected]
26-May-2002 02:30 |
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mail will NOT work if your system doesn't have
a /bin/sh (like in
chroots...)
just take some time to figure it out ;)
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29-May-2002 01:15 |
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I use qmail, and have found that mail() will return TRUE even if there is
no valid email address in the To parameter. If you're having problems
getting mail() to work with qmail, double-check that the output from your
script produces a valid email message before looking further!
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[email protected]
03-Jun-2002 04:11 |
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i have noticed that the mail() doesnt work if you define some headers in a
variable ($headers) and also within the mail( ..here.. ). this causes a
conflict for some reason
example...
$headers = "MIME/TYPE
blah blah blah";
$headers = "Cc:
[email protected]";
mail("$headers", "From:
[email protected]");
i hope this helps
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[email protected]
03-Jun-2002 04:12 |
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i have noticed that the mail() doesnt work if you define some headers in a
variable ($headers) and also within the mail( ..here.. ). this causes a
conflict for some reason
example...
$headers = "MIME/TYPE
blah blah blah";
$headers = "Cc:
[email protected]";
mail("$headers", "From:
[email protected]");
i hope this helps
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[email protected]
04-Jun-2002 02:03 |
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Hi!
I'm using this:
mail($friend_email, "A friend wishes
you to see this!", "$message\n\nURL: $url\n\nYour friend,
$you_name\n<a href=\">$you_email</a>",
"From: $you_email");
I want to get a linked email adress
of the $you_email adress. Since this is not html, I know this is not
correct. Do I need to use $headers ? or can I send the message as
html?
What do you recommend me to do?
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[email protected]
06-Jun-2002 03:50 |
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use these headers to send in html form
$headers =
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
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[email protected]
10-Jun-2002 09:40 |
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Hi..
I'm using this
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
when
I run the program the following message occure
Warning: Failed to
Connect in C:\apache\htdocs\mail\mail2.php
please tell me what is the
problem?
what should I do?
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[email protected]
12-Jun-2002 04:07 |
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If you have downloaded an email via POP connection, ex.:
$complete_email
="
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:18:47 -0400
From: "Sergio
Paternoster" <[email protected]>
To: "My
Users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Hello from
Sergio!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello
from Sergio!
";
and want to forward it to another email
address, just change the To: field into the encoded downloaded email and
then use
mail("", "",
"",$To_changed_complete_email);
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[email protected]
26-Jun-2002 03:08 |
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If some of your mails cannot be received by some people, you might have the
following problem:
Some mailservers block messages with more than
1024 Characters in a single line.
Solution: just add a simple
linebreak (\n) after the last space before each character 1024
You
could possibly use wordwrap() for this...
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[email protected]
27-Jun-2002 10:53 |
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having a little problem with the mail function. trying to generate several
emails to addresses submitted by a user and i need to tell if any of these
emails get returned as undeliverable. they do not, however get returned to
the "reply to" address nor the "from" address. where
would the returned message get sent?
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[email protected]
11-Jul-2002 12:35 |
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in the excellent 'header' example:
[email protected]
20-May-2002
02:21
I find it better to use:
mail("", $subject,
$message, $headers);
because you are already setting the TO: in the
headers. If you put the $contactemail, you will see two names on the TO
line on the email separated by ;
also, if it's not painfully
obvious, use:
"Content-type: text/plain"
to get regular
text vs. html text.
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11-Jul-2002 08:06 |
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Took some digging to find how to set the mail server port number as the
typist of the documention above forgot to finish typing the Mail
Configuration Directive "smtp_port".
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[email protected]
15-Jul-2002 05:41 |
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deseo enviar de un fromulario web a varios direcciones de mail a la ves la
informaci�n recibida.
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[email protected]
15-Jul-2002 08:07 |
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I have a problem. Everywhere is writing "It's simple", but I
can't find how to do it:
Send a HTTP massage to another serwer using
POST method (one var) without any form (it has to be authomatic, without
any user). I wrote e-shop in PHP and I'm looking for answer in
PHP.
Please help me!!!
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[email protected]
15-Jul-2002 10:15 |
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Re: [email protected]
To send a POST to another server with php, i would
either:
1) open a socket to that remote server, and write the HTTP
POST request...
-create socket
-write ("POST <uri>
HTTP/1.0\n")
-write ("...\n")
-write("Content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"
-write("Content-length:".strlen($post_data."\n")
-write("\n")
=write($post_data."\n")
2)
Use CURL lib, like ...
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$remote_host)
curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post_data)
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$page
= curl_exec ($ch);
to see what all those CURLOPT mean go to
I hope
this helps !
David
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[email protected]
09-Aug-2002 06:29 |
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Solution to massmailing timeout:
Unsafe solution is to change the
timeout properties in php.ini
The better solution is to create separate
email object run through window command prompt (in windows) or separate
shell function (in unix) that will run itself separately until
termination.
[I found php to run faster in a shell/command prompt]
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[email protected]
16-Aug-2002 11:46 |
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If you need to send an e-mail with an html content and the same e-mail have
Bcc headers.
Place the Bcc (and why not also Cc) at the end of your
additional headers. Otherwise, people receiving the email in copy may have
the html code in their screen. The one who are designed as main recipient
will not have this problem.
Explanation :
=========
The
e-mail headers are broken when the PHP parser delete the Bcc line (Removed
cause hidden, obvious !).
Example :
=======
This is
bad
$header = "From:
\"".addslashes($sender_name)."\"
<".$sender_email.">\r\n";
$header .=
"Reply-To: ".$sender_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"Cc: ".$other_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"Bcc: ".$another_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .=
"X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP /
".phpversion()."\r\n";
The following is
good
$header = "From:
\"".addslashes($sender_name)."\"
<".$sender_email.">\r\n";
$header .=
"Reply-To: ".$sender_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .=
"X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP /
".phpversion()."\r\n";
$header .= "Cc:
".$other_email."\r\n";
$header .= "Bcc:
".$another_email."\r\n";
Sorry for my bad english.
:-)
Redy Ramamonjisoa
<[email protected]>
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[email protected]
19-Aug-2002 07:43 |
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I had a problem with the outgoing email from PHP: The emails were going OUT
but not being recieved by SOME users.
Specifically, users with
accounts within my own ISP were fine (COX.NET), my .NAME account was OK,
and others. AOL users got NOTHING as well as some other users.
The
problem was was with PHP.INI settings. Notice the default
setting:
sendmail_from = [email protected] ; for Win32
only
This affects the "return path" header (on my system
anyway) REGARDLESS of the From header entry. Apparently some anti-spam
filters look at the return path to see if it is legit and, if not, drop
the message.
If you leave this as is it will work fine... for SOME
mail transports, but not all!! For it to work properly, I had to configure
it to be an email address within the domain of my ISP. Note that I also
have the SMTP server set to my ISP's main outgoing SMTP server.
Apparently, any address will work as long as it is properly formatted and
from the domain of the SMTP server.
My setting now reads similar
to:
sendmail_from = [email protected] ; for Win32 only
I
haven't verified it works in all cases, but it works at least for AOL. I'm
fairly confident it will work for all my users, I'll try to remember to
post more info if I find out anything else.
BTW: I didn't have to
change the \r to \r\n with my configuration (XP/IIS5), but I have had
trouble with that in other platforms (e.g. NT4/IIS4). You might want to
look at that as well.
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[email protected]
21-Aug-2002 03:11 |
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This is an example 4 sending german umlaute - but it works 4 other special
character settings,
2.
mail("[email protected]","Subject",
"Content",
"Mime-Version:1.0\nContent-Type:
text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding:
8bit\"");
Regards,
Dipl.Inf. (FH) Bernd
Schwaegerl
Mueller-Knoche GmbH, Systemhaus fuer EDV-Loesungen
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[email protected]
23-Aug-2002 01:13 |
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When you got a "Server Error" you not allowed to send a EMail
with you return address or to a specified EMail address.
Test it
with "telnet (smtp server) smtp" and you get a 550 Relaying is
prohibited Error.
regards
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