PHP mail function not working
Question
I have a php script that sends an email. It looks like this:
<?php
// subject
$subject = "$first_name $last_name has sent you a message on The Red-line";
// message
$message = "<html>
<head>
<title>
The Red-line
</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hi $war_first,
</p> <br />
<p>
$first_name $last_name has sent you a message on the Red-line. To view your message, please login to <a href='www.thered-line.com'>the Red-line.</a>
</p> <br />
<p>
Sincerely,
</p> <br />
<p>
The Red-line Operator
</p>
</body>
</html>";
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$headers .= "From: The Red-line messages@theredline.com \r\n";
$headers .= "To: $war_first $last_war <$war_mail>\r\n";
// Mail it
mail($war_mail, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
When I was testing this out on the remote server, I used this script to send an email to my inbox at turbocapitalist1987@yahoo.com. I got the email but the "from" part doesn't work . Yahoo says that my email was sent from "the@yahoo.com"
Does anybody have a clue as to why this isn't working?
Thanks
3 answers
solution1
3 2010-10-31 22:59:04
For your From header, enclose the actual address with < > :
$headers .= "From: The Red-line <messages@theredline.com> \r\n";
This is the correct format to use when you have both a display name and an email address. I'm guessing Yahoo was interpreting the first word "The" as the entire email address, and provided a default (yahoo.com) for the domain.
solution2
1 2010-10-31 23:00:46
The <> seems to be your problem, it should be:
$headers .= "From: The Red-line <messages@theredline.com> \r\n";
Secondly, on Unix/Linux, you must have a working MTA (ie: sendmail, postfix, etc.) configured on your server, either to relay mail directly, or through a Smart Host . If you're on Windows, you must have a SMTP server configured in php.ini.
solution3
0 2010-10-31 23:29:48
我建议使用预构建的PHP电子邮件库，例如： http : //swiftmailer.org/
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