Sending mail

[Robert]

Hi,

I'm getting an error when I try sending an email from some code I have
written:

"<?php

print "Thank you, <b>$_POST[name]</b>, for your message!<br><br>\n\n";
print "Your e-mail address is <b>$_POST[email]</b><br><br>\n\n";
print "Your message was:<br><br>\n\n";
print "$_POST[message] <br><br>";

// Start building the mail string
$msg = "Name: $_POST[name]\n";
$msg .= "Email: $_POST[email]\n";
$msg .= "Message: $_POST[message]\n";

// Set up the mail

$recipient = "em**************@bigpond.net.au";
$subject = "Form Submission Results";
$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <em**************@bigpond.net.au> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]";

// Now we send the mail message
mail ($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>
"

The error says:
"
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 See
http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. in .......\listing9.12.php on line
28
"

As this web site does not seem to exist does anyone have aby suggestions?
I notice that I don't seem to have provided php with a password anywhere to
access the mail server.
Does it need it?

In my php.ini file I have:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.bigpond.com
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = em**************@bigpond.com

Any Suggestions as th why I get a SMTP server response: 451?

[Daniel Tryba]

Robert <lo*********@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

The error says:
"
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 See
http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. in .......\listing9.12.php on line
28
"

As this web site does not seem to exist does anyone have aby suggestions?

Maybe you should learn how to use a searchengine :)

A search for 'smtplf.html' on google turned up:
http://www.google.nl/search?q=cache:...ml+smtplf.html

The cached version of the missing page....

--

Daniel Tryba

[Data Goob]

I don't know if this is even relevant so please excuse me if it isn't...

You appear to be incorrectly using references to associative arrays, but
maybe it's ok to do it your way and I'm learning something new.

You use $_POST[variable] which should be incorrect. ( ?? )

Instead from the way I learned PHP it's "supposed" to be
$_POST["variable"] or $_POST['variable']

I see others doing it your way too, and it seems to be working but like I
said it shouldn't be that way--maybe I'm wrong... But maybe it's part
of the problem you're having if it isn't passing the right values.

Just my .02...

-DG-

Robert wrote:

Hi,

I'm getting an error when I try sending an email from some code I have
written:

"<?php

print "Thank you, <b>$_POST[name]</b>, for your message!<br><br>\n\n";
print "Your e-mail address is <b>$_POST[email]</b><br><br>\n\n";
print "Your message was:<br><br>\n\n";
print "$_POST[message] <br><br>";

// Start building the mail string
$msg = "Name: $_POST[name]\n";
$msg .= "Email: $_POST[email]\n";
$msg .= "Message: $_POST[message]\n";

// Set up the mail

$recipient = "em**************@bigpond.net.au";
$subject = "Form Submission Results";
$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <em**************@bigpond.net.au> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]";

// Now we send the mail message
mail ($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>
"

The error says:
"
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 See
http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. in .......\listing9.12.php on line
28
"

As this web site does not seem to exist does anyone have aby suggestions?
I notice that I don't seem to have provided php with a password anywhere to
access the mail server.
Does it need it?

In my php.ini file I have:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.bigpond.com
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = em**************@bigpond.com

Any Suggestions as th why I get a SMTP server response: 451?

[Justin Koivisto]

Robert wrote:

$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <em**************@bigpond.net.au> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]";

Those lines should be like this:

$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <us**@example.com>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]\r\n";

Headers need to end with \r\n not a just \n

--
Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

[Justin Koivisto]

Daniel Tryba wrote:

Robert <lo*********@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

The error says:
"
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 See
http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. in .......\listing9.12.php on line
28
"

As this web site does not seem to exist does anyone have aby suggestions?

Maybe you should learn how to use a searchengine :)

A search for 'smtplf.html' on google turned up:
http://www.google.nl/search?q=cache:...ml+smtplf.html

The cached version of the missing page....

maybe next time I'll read the rest of the thread before posting an
answer... ;)

--
Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Data Goob wrote:

I don't know if this is even relevant so please excuse me if it
isn't...

You appear to be incorrectly using references to associative arrays,
but maybe it's ok to do it your way and I'm learning something new.

You use $_POST[variable] which should be incorrect. ( ?? )

Instead from the way I learned PHP it's "supposed" to be
$_POST["variable"] or $_POST['variable']

You're totally correct and it's good that you have noticed it.

The reason why is described here:

http://nl.php.net/manual/en/language...es.array.donts
JW

[Data Goob]

Janwillem,

Thanks!

I thought there was something wrong with the way people have been doing it,
but this settles it. :-)

( I have been using PHP for 3 yrs now, and am still learning new features... )

-DG-

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

Data Goob wrote:

I don't know if this is even relevant so please excuse me if it
isn't...

You appear to be incorrectly using references to associative arrays,
but maybe it's ok to do it your way and I'm learning something new.

You use $_POST[variable] which should be incorrect. ( ?? )

Instead from the way I learned PHP it's "supposed" to be
$_POST["variable"] or $_POST['variable']

You're totally correct and it's good that you have noticed it.

The reason why is described here:

http://nl.php.net/manual/en/language...es.array.donts
JW

[Robert]

Hi,

And thank you all for your replies.

I'm going to have to look into this further to find the answer it seems.
I'll let you know how I go.

Thanks
Robert
"Justin Koivisto" <sp**@koivi.com> wrote in message
news:_C*****************@news7.onvoy.net...

Robert wrote:

$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <em**************@bigpond.net.au> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]";

Those lines should be like this:

$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <us**@example.com>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]\r\n";

Headers need to end with \r\n not a just \n

--
Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

[Ian.H]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:11:22 GMT, Justin Koivisto <sp**@koivi.com>
wrote:

Robert wrote:

$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <em**************@bigpond.net.au> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]";

Those lines should be like this:

$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <us**@example.com>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]\r\n";

Headers need to end with \r\n not a just \n

Not sure if this is due to an older version of PHP and a bug in the
mail() function or not, but, granted, that's how they _should_ be, but
I've just had to change a contact form from \r\n to \n as it was
throwing out mail errors:
X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Improper use of control character (char 0D
hex) in message header 'X-Site'
X-Site: {SITE_URL}\r\n

{SITE_URL} is just a 'sub.domain.tld' string.

PHP v4.2.2 on that box.

Regards,

Ian

--
Ian.H
digiServ Network
London, UK
http://digiserv.net/