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[PaulCheung]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for that, it didn't work either.Everything appears to have been sent 
but the email never arrives or is it sent?

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Schmitt" <joe-nyphp at joeschmittjr.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Setting up outgoing mail using Linux


> Hi Paul,
>
> It looks like you need to add quotes around the items in the mail function
> even though they're variables.
>
> This works for me, I receive an email when someone contacts me from a web
> form:
> mail ("joe-nyphp at joeschmittjr.com", "Contact the web master",
> "$message_body", "From: {$_POST['email']}");
>
> Try a simple one (see below), then add variables:
> mail ("YourEmailAddress at test.com", "Test Title", "Test Message", "From:
> TestSender at test.com");
>
> ----
> Joe Schmitt
> joe-nyphp at joeschmittjr
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "PaulCheung" <paulcheung at tiscali.co.uk>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:57 PM
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Setting up outgoing mail using Linux
>
>
>> Can anybody help?
>>
>> I am having problems trying to send automated emails using Linux,
> typically
>> order confirmation emails. I don't know how it is set-up and according to
>> the  manual I read it said "for unix only. You may supply arguments as
> well
>> (default: 'sendmail -t -i). sendmail_path = sendmail -t -i;
>>
>> This didn't not work. I use 1and1 and they have setup the sendmail and I
>> found the sendmail path is /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>
>> so I set sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t'; This doesn't work
>> either - below is the snippet of code.
>> ================================================================
>> $headers = 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
>> sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t';
>>
>> $date = date("Y-m-d");
>>
>>      $to = "$email1";
>>      $subject = "Your Account Number";
>>      $message = "Thank you for choosing HANWELL PRODUCTS
>>
>>
>> PLEASE MAKE A CAREFUL NOTE OF THIS INFORMATION AS WITHOUT IT YOU WILL NOT
> BE
>> ABLE ACCESS YOUR  HANWELL PRODUCTS ACCOUNT
>>
>> Your USER-ID  is :  $userid
>>
>> Your PASSWORD is :  $passcode
>>
>> Your ACCOUNT  is :  $account
>>
>> This Email was sent on : $account_date
>>
>> ";
>> $from    = "FROM: info at hanwellproducts.com";
>>
>> echo "The email was sent : $date ";
>> mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
>> ?>
>>
>> Can anybody show me what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
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