Problem Sending Emails
Posted by:
sanfly
(---.phm.auckland.ac.nz)
Date: December 05, 2006 08:15PM
Hi,
I installed WAMP5 on my PC for testing my php pages, and im having a little trouble with scripts that require emails to be sent. I will point out straght away that these scripts all work fine when I upload them to my webhost
The error message I am getting is along these lines:
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Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 <New Zealand Society for Oncology <myemail@myhost.com>>: "@" or "." expected after "New" in C:\server\www\NZSO\sendmessage.php on line 108
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This is my sendmail script
$user_passwords_sender = "New Zealand Society for Oncology";
$user_passwords_email = "myemail@myhost.com";
$sendmail = mail($mail_to_email, $subject, $message, "From: $user_passwords_sender <$user_passwords_email>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
If I change my sendmail script to:
$sendmail = mail($mail_to_email, $subject, $message, "From: $user_passwords_email \nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
it works fine, so it likes the format "myemail@myhost.com" but not "New Zealand Society for Oncology <myemail@myhost.com>"
All I can guess from this is that for some reason it thinks that the name of recipient + email address is the email address, ie: it doesnt recogonise the format the "From" header is in.
Can anyone suggest a way to fix this? I dont know if its a PHP issue, or server issue or what...
Cheers