mail problem in php

yertanian · November 24th, 2004, 10:36 AM

Hi all,
any one tell me if there is something wrong in this code. i have no error, everything in completing, but no e-mail sent..

<?php
$emailfrom='[email protected]';

if($list){
    Header("Location:list.php");
    exit;
}

if(!$file=fopen("newsletter.dat", "r")){
  echo "Could not open the data file";
}else{
  $linesarr=file("newsletter.dat");

  for($i=0; $i<count($linesarr);$i++){
    $tmparr=explode("\n",$linesarr[$i]);
    $linesarr[$i]=$tmparr[0];
$mail_body="Hello $linesarr[$i],

$msg

Thank You,
BIN HANI ESTABLISHMENT
";

  mail($linesarr[$i], 'Bin Hani Est.', $mail_body,"Content-Type:text/html; charset=windows-1256\r\nFrom: $emailfrom\r\nReply-to: $emailfrom");

  }

  echo "</body></html>";
  echo "<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=\"1; URL=sendsuccess.php\">";
  echo "</head><body background=\"images/bgyello.jpg\" bgcolor=#FFFFFF>";
  echo "<table align=center border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td></td></tr></table></body></html>";

}

?>

this file in the action of a form, and the newsletter.dat file exist and contain e-mail addresses.

please help as soon as possible.

Daniel Walker · December 1st, 2004, 10:53 AM

Have you actually got a mail transfer agent installed and running? Nothing will happen if you haven't ;).

SiliconFuRy · December 2nd, 2004, 06:45 AM

Also, have you setup php.ini properly to use an SMTP Server? Or the path to sendmail, depending on OS.

Check the PHP.net docs for that.

http://www.php.net/mail

Many shoes,

Jamez/SiliconFuRy

yertanian · December 2nd, 2004, 07:27 AM

ok, its done, it was from the php.ini file.

thnaks a lot for your help

puliko · January 18th, 2005, 10:47 PM

I am sending html mail with php mail() but somebody get text file not html file in the email show actual html so I don't know what 's going on ?

Puliko

puliko · January 18th, 2005, 10:54 PM

I used this header to send email

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From:$Name <$Email]>\r\n";

and use Apache server ,postfix for sending email but somebody get email in text file not html file .Please help me to solve this problem

Puliko