problem in sending mail through mail function in php

**amitpant_5** · July 30th, 2009, 02:07 AM

I made file one is html that is

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>
<head><title>Mail sender</title></head>
<body>
<form action="mail.php" method="POST">
<b>Email</b><br>
<input type="text" name="email" size=40>
<p><b>Subject</b><br>
<input type="text" name="subject" size=40>
<p><b>Message</b><br>
<textarea cols=40 rows=10 name="message"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value=" Send ">
</form>
</body>
</html>

and one for php for sending mail that is

PHP Code:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>PHP Mail Sender</title></head>
<body>
<?php

/* All form fields are automatically passed to the PHP script through the array $HTTP_POST_VARS. */
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
$subject = $HTTP_POST_VARS['subject'];
$message = $HTTP_POST_VARS['message'];

/* PHP form validation: the script checks that the Email field contains a valid email address and the Subject field isn't empty. preg_match performs a regular expression match. It's a very powerful PHP function to validate form fields and other strings - see PHP manual for details. */
if (!preg_match("/\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*/", $email)) {
  echo "<h4>Invalid email address</h4>";
  echo "<a href='javascript:history.back(1);'>Back</a>";
} elseif ($subject == "") {
  echo "<h4>No subject</h4>";
  echo "<a href='javascript:history.back(1);'>Back</a>";
}

/* Sends the mail and outputs the "Thank you" string if the mail is successfully sent, or the error string otherwise. */
elseif (mail( $email,$subject,$message,"hhh")) {
  echo "<h4>Thank you for sending email</h4>";
} else {
  echo "<h4>Can't send email to $email</h4>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>

and when i run this through html form it through this error

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in e:\amit\wamp\www\pp\mail.php on line 22

Can't send email to [email protected]
i can i get any solution plz help me out
as soon as possible

**Teranoz** · July 30th, 2009, 02:55 AM

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Note: When sending mail, the mail must contain a From header. This can be set with the additional_headers parameter, or a default can be set in php.ini.
Failing to do this will result in an error message similar to Warning: mail(): "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing. The From header sets also Return-Path under Windows.

PHP Code:


<?php

$to      = '[email protected]';

$subject = 'the subject';

$message = 'hello';

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .

    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .

    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();



mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

**amitpant_5** · July 30th, 2009, 04:28 AM

still throw ing warning s

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [email protected] in e:\amit\wamp\www\pp\dd.php on line 15

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<?php
$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<body>
</body>
</html>

**PeejAvery** · July 30th, 2009, 08:53 AM

You haven't properly configured your SMTP settings inside of the php.ini configuration file. Do you have an SMTP server?

Also...Please use [code] or [php] tags. BB code

**Teranoz** · July 30th, 2009, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by amitpant_5

still throw ing warning s

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [email protected] in e:\amit\wamp\www\pp\dd.php on line 15

This means it does work but is not allowed, because the server does not allow that gmail address as sender.
Try using a valid email adres with the domain of the website.

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