PHP Mail Error

[samarudge]

Hi,
I am having a problem with my PHP mail function. I am trying to send an email from [e-mail]. This code is fine:

mail($to, $subject, $body,
    "From: [e-mail]\n" .
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n" .
    "     boundary=" . $mime_boundary_header) or die('Mail Error');

however this does not

mail($to, $subject, $body,
    "From: Mr. User <[e-mail]>\n" .
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n" .
    "     boundary=" . $mime_boundary_header) or die('Mail Error');

The exact error returned is

[Sat Sep 26 21:08:11 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: SMTP server response: 501 &lt;&lt;TubeTool&gt; user@site&gt;: missing or malformed local part in [removed for security]\\scripts\\0\\saccount\\signup.php on line 168, referer: [...]

Please note that the &lt; and &gt; are exactly that in the error log not < or >
Regards,
Sam Rudge

[cwarn23]

Perhaps this might be better:

mail($to, $subject, $body,
    "From: Mr. User <[e-mail]>\r\n" .
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\r\n" .
    "     boundary=" . $mime_boundary_header."\r\n") or die('Mail Error');

[samarudge]

Perhaps this might be better:

mail($to, $subject, $body,
    "From: Mr. User <[e-mail]>\r\n" .
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\r\n" .
    "     boundary=" . $mime_boundary_header."\r\n") or die('Mail Error');

Thanks for the suggestion but same error again :(

[farhan386]

Try PHPMailer to send such complex email. Better header manipulation, CC/BCC, attachment, SMTP, and much more.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/

[crazyb0y]

mail($to, $subject, $body,
    "From: Mr. User <[e-mail]>\r\n" .
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"----------A4D921C2D10D7DB\"\r\n") or die('Mail Error');