please help

[chunk1978]

here's a mail() example i found on a site, i put my own address in the $to section... but all i get is "Mail Failed" message... what am i doing wrong?

<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = '[e-mail]';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test HTML email'; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \n
$headers = "From: [e-mail]\nReply-To: [e-mail]";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; 
//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
 

[Motoma]

Most likely, you do not have an SMTP server correctly configured on your server. Use PHP info to check that all of the SMTP server information is correct in your php.ini file.

here's a mail() example i found on a site, i put my own address in the $to section... but all i get is "Mail Failed" message... what am i doing wrong?

<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = '[e-mail]';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test HTML email'; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \n
$headers = "From: [e-mail]\nReply-To: [e-mail]";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; 
//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
 

[chunk1978]

Most likely, you do not have an SMTP server correctly configured on your server. Use PHP info to check that all of the SMTP server information is correct in your php.ini file.

hi motoma, thanks for the reply... i'll be subscribing to a community based server, so i won't have access to the php.ini file... however, they told me that my custom php scripts will work because they have php4.4.3 and sendmail installed on their server... smtp config in the .ini file is either set up for windows or unix right? so at least one of them should work when it comes time to test the script... i'm assuming based on what you suggested, that this script looks fine and should work... i guess it depends on what carriage returs i use? "\n" for unix and "\r\n" for windows?