Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:17:33 +1100 From: "bsd_tech" <bsd@time-on.com> To: swenson@heronetwork.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail using phpmail Message-ID: <3fcd1df3.3e0d.0@time-on.com>
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Thank you all for your help I now have found the problem and it is now working
>Greetings,
>
>We host a lot of virtual domain web sites on BSD boxes that are running PHP
>forms and sending out tons of email. Sometimes PHP doesn't figure out the right
>path for the sendmail program. So your first check is to make sure PHP is using
>sendmail correctly for your particular box. The builting phpinfo() command
puts
>out a nice summary of your php build including all the build options. You need
>to make sure PHP was compiled with the correct path to sendmail.
>
>A php check web page:
>----- cut here -----
><?php phpinfo(); ?>
>----- cut here -----
>
>In the CORE PHP configuration section look for the setting 'sendmail_path'.
>Ours is set to '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i'
>
>You can test to see if PHP can send email using the code I included bellow.
>Given that PHP can send email phpmail should start working.
>
>I am not sure how phpmail handles the mail but we have found email works a
LOT
>better if some extra header information is included. Here is the PHP code you
>can use to check to see if PHP is able send messages from a functioning email
>form on a BSD box:
>
>email.php:
>----- cut here -----
><?php
> $_toEmailAddress = "info@somedomain.com";
> $_ccEmailAddress = "";
> //$_bccEmailAddress = "alternate@destination.com";
>
> $_subject = $_POST[ "subject" ];
> $_comments = $_POST[ "message" ];
> $phone = $_POST[ "phoneNumber" ];
> $name = $_POST[ "name" ];
> $_from = "\"$name\" <" . $_POST[ "email" ] . ">";
>
> if ( $_POST[ "cc_me" ] == "on" ) {
> $_ccEmailAddress = $_from;
> }
>
> $message = "\n\nName: " . $name . "\n";
> $message .= "Email: " . $_from . "\n";
> $message .= "Phone Number: " . $phone . "\n";
> $message .= "\nMessage: " . $_comments . "\n\n";
>
> $_headers = "";
> //$_headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> //$_headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
> $_headers .= "From: $_from\r\n";
> //$_headers .= "To: ".$_toEmailAddress."\r\n";
> if (! empty($_bccEmailAddress) ) {
> $_headers .= "BCC: ".$_bccEmailAddress."\r\n";
> }
> if (! empty($_ccEmailAddress) ) {
> $_headers .= "CC: ".$_ccEmailAddress."\r\n";
> }
> $_headers .= "Reply-To: $_from\r\n";
> $_headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
> $_headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
> $_headers .= "X-Mailer: Hero Network Email System";
>
> $mailresponse = mail("$_toEmailAddress",
> "$_subject",
> "$message",
> $_headers
> );
>?>
>----- cut here -----
>
>email_form.html
>----- cut here -----
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
><html>
> <head>
> <title>
> Untitled
> </title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form action="email.php" method="post">
> <table border="0" width="383" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
>align="center">
> <tr>
> <td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
>12px; color: #333366;" align="right">Name:</td>
> <td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="name" size="20"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
>12px; color: #333366;" align="right">Email:</td>
> <td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="email" size="20">
><img src="img/required.gif" alt="Required" width="9" height="8"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
>12px; color: #333366;">Send a copy of this message to me too: <input
>type="checkbox" name="cc_me" checked="" value="ON">
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
>12px; color: #333366;"><p align="right" style="text-align: right">Phone:</p></td>
> <td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="phoneNumber"
>size="20"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2">
> <br>
> <p style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color:
>#333366;">
> To best route your email, please select the most appropriate
>category:
> </p>
> <select class="greySelect" name="subject">
> <option class="optionRed" value="Request Information"
>selected>Request information</option>
> <option class="optionRed" value="Owner Contact Request">Send
>Message Directly To Owner</option>
> <option class="optionRed" value="Requesting
>Something">Other</option>
> </select><br>
> <br>
>
> <p style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color:
>#333366;">Input message here.</p>
> <textarea class="input_text" rows="20" cols="50"
>style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color: navy;
>scrollbar-base-color:pink;scrollbar-arrow-color: #ee0000;" name="message"
>size="15"></textarea>
> <p align="center"><input type="submit" value=" Send Request "
>name="Submit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 13px;
>color: #ffffff; background: #006633;"></p>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </form>
> </body>
></html>
>----- cut here -----
>
>Cheers,
>Scottie
>
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