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PHP Mail function not working in Windows Server

Jun 11th, 2008

I have trid the testing script as follows:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</HEAD>
<BODY><?php
$headers = 'From:info@mydomain.com'. "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email]info@mydomain.com[/email]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$ret=mail('user@customer.com', 'subject', 'this is the content',$headers,'-finfo@mydomain.com');
echo "<BR/>mail() returned: " . ($ret? "TRUE" : "FALSE") . "<BR/>";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</HEAD>
<BODY><?php
$headers = 'From:info@mydomain.com'. "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email]info@mydomain.com[/email]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$ret=mail('user@customer.com', 'subject', 'this is the content',$headers,'-finfo@mydomain.com');
echo "<BR/>mail() returned: " . ($ret? "TRUE" : "FALSE") . "<BR/>";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

This script works fine at another Linux server. But in the windows server i am using, the result is:

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mail() returned: TRUE
mail() returned: TRUE

but sending no mail at all.

The server setting is like:

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Directive	      Local Value	               Master Value
sendmail_from	<a href="mailto:me@localhost.com">me@localhost.com</a>	<a href="mailto:me@localhost.com">me@localhost.com</a>
sendmail_path	     no value	                       no value
SMTP	              213.200.51.11	         213.200.51.11
smtp_port	             25	                                25
Directive	      Local Value	               Master Value
sendmail_from	<a href="mailto:me@localhost.com">me@localhost.com</a>	<a href="mailto:me@localhost.com">me@localhost.com</a>
sendmail_path	     no value	                       no value
SMTP	              213.200.51.11	         213.200.51.11
smtp_port	             25	                                25

I can't locate the problem cos I don't have access to server config...
Someone please tell me where the problem is..Thanks

Last edited by peter_budo; Jun 11th, 2008 at 3:22 pm. Reason: Keep It Organized - please use [code] tags

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Re: PHP Mail function not working in Windows Server

Jun 11th, 2008

I found the solution by myself:
put

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<?php
ini_set("sendmail_from", "info@mydomain.com");?>
<?php
ini_set("sendmail_from", "info@mydomain.com");?>

at the beginng of mail testing file.....

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Re: PHP Mail function not working in Windows Server

Aug 14th, 2009

For all of the people struggling with getting PHP mail() sending to some, but not all, recipients...look no farther. Your solution has been posted here.

It appears PHP-generated emails don't play nice on Windows mail servers. So, when your mail goes to anyone who uses a Windows mail server (Comcast, gmail, and maybe aol), the recipients won't get it. UNLESS YOU ADD THE LINE:

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phpini_set("sendmail_from", "info@mydomain.com");
 
?>
<?

phpini_set("sendmail_from", "info@mydomain.com");

?>

This is a miracle! I have been scouring the internet high and low, and this is the ONLY thing that has worked! Now I can move on to the rest of the project!

Thank you, MeixiuLin! Thank you, thank you.

Last edited by peter_budo; Aug 16th, 2009 at 4:55 am. Reason: Keep It Organized - For easy readability, always wrap programming code within posts in [code] (code blocks) and [icode] (inline code) tags.