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    pouletfou at gmail dot com
    6 years ago
    I use this script to test webapps using mail with this little php script saved as /usr/sbin/sendmail :

    #!/usr/bin/php
    <?php
            //====================================================
        // Program : Fake send mail
        // Author : pouletfou at gmail
        // Description : save this file as /usr/sbin/sendmail
        //  and you can test your PHP applications using mail
        //  by looking at the /tmp/fakesendmail.log files.
        //====================================================

            define('LOGFILE','/tmp/fakesendmail.log');

            $log = fopen (LOGFILE,'a+');

            fwrite($log,"\n".implode(' ',$argv).
             " called on : ".date('Y-m-d H:i:s')."\n");

            fwrite($log,file_get_contents("php://stdin"));
            fwrite($log,
    "\n===========================================================\n");
            fclose($log);

    ?>
    Some guy
    7 years ago
    Under windows there is a bug in php/mail

    See here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28038

    this results in you being unable to send 'From: Full Name <me@domain.com>'

    Workaround is:

    Set the following before calling the mail function:

    ini_set('sendmail_from', 'me@domain.com);
    Ashlin
    7 years ago
    2 points have to be set :

    <?php
    ini_set    ("SMTP","smtp.example.com" );
    ini_set('sendmail_from', 'user@example.com');
    ?>

    or set them in the php.ini file

    By doing this, i have fixed definetly this problem :-)
    dev at realynospamspcweb dot nl
    7 years ago
    @Crusiatus Black
    23-May-2008 05:00

    Code below works without errors
    <?php

    $Name     = "Da Duder"; //senders name
    $email = "email@adress.com"; //senders e-mail adress
    $recipient = "PersonWhoGetsIt@emailadress.com"; //recipient
    $mail_body = "The text for the mail..."; //mail body
    $subject = "Subject for reviever"; //subject
    $header = "From: ". $Name . " <" . $email . ">\r\n"; //optional headerfields

    mail($recipient, $subject, $mail_body, $header); //mail command :)
    ?>
    burkestar at gmail dot com
    7 years ago
    The workaround mentioned above only works with IIS 5 assuming you've configured the Virtual SMTP Server to accept relays. 

    In IIS console, right-click SMTP Virtual Server and choose "Properties". On "Access" tab, click "Relay..." button and make sure "All except the list below" is selected.

    Warning: This is just a quick fix which exposes a security risk because allowing your SMTP server to be a relay with anonymous access could make your computer susceptible to becoming a spam zombie.  You should properly add your computer's IP address to the list and choose "Only the list below" instead to lock it down.
    Carlos
    5 years ago
    If you use the function utf8_decode() for the subject variable you can receive text messages readables in utf-8.
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