Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
Hi Christian, I have an account with f2s.com that I use for sampling scripts with - I set up a mailform yesterday after reading this, using mail() to send the email to myself. It got here - albeit 6am today (I sent it yesterday lunchtime) Perhaps you're using the mail() function incorrectly? James. Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
At 09:27 16/5/2001 +0100, James Holloway wrote: Hi Christian, I have an account with f2s.com that I use for sampling scripts with - I set up a mailform yesterday after reading this, using mail() to send the email to myself. It got here - albeit 6am today (I sent it yesterday lunchtime) Perhaps you're using the mail() function incorrectly? Well.. maybe something is wrong with my account or something cuz I'm using it fine... I've tried 3 different ways to send mail that works everywhere else I just put up this little script to send a sample mail... $to=[EMAIL PROTECTED]; $from=MySelf [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $subject=just testing; $body=h1Hello! Just testing here/h1; $headers=Content-type: text/html\nFrom: .$from; $rs=mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers); $result=($rs)?successfull.:failed.; echo Mail to .$to.: .$result; guess what was the output? Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: failed. what's wrong with the script above? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
At 20:32 14/5/2001 -0500, Ben Gollmer wrote:
If you have an account on a remote host, you can always do something like
this:
?php
include(http://www.remotehost.com/~myaccount/mailfunction.inc;);
mymail($to, $mailbody);
?
where mailfunction.inc has the mymail function defined to just take your
parameters and stuff them into the standard mail().
Of course include()ing from remote hosts can be disabled when compiling
PHP, and if your host is really evil, the will have disabled this too.
Your last resort is to create your own mail function by fsockopen()ing a
connection to port 25 of your SMTP server and sending raw SMTP commands.
This would require some reading of the relevant mail RFCs...but is
definitely feasible.
I tried using fopen('.') on a script hosted at a domain that belongs to
me that sends email... trying it here (even calling the script elsewhere on
the internet 'http://www.mydomain.com') it wordked perfect...
then I tried the fsockopen alternative... it didn't work...
f2s runs in safemode... so in their faq, they tell us that if we won't some
more advanced scripts... to use the cgi version (script.cgi starting with
'#!/usr/bin/php'... and so on)... nothing works... they must have a real
protection against acessing outer files there...
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Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
At 22:40 14/5/2001 -0700, Ethan Schroeder wrote: I don't know how you can find sendmail on that system if you don't have telnet access. Try writing a script that does an exec(which sendmail) and see if it tells you. I doubt it will, though. Otherwise try different sendmail locations: /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail, etc. The .htacess file overwrites the value of the php.ini file, so you can specify to php where sendmail is for any script that is under the directory your .htaccess file resides in (unless they don't allow .htaccess). I've had to use this approach a couple times to get php to send mail off properly. actually I discovered with ini_get()... I'll try now with popen() and stuff again... may it'll work... this is my last hope... I tried calling a script in another domain, I tried fsockopen... nothing seems to work... this is my last attempt... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] need some ideas here...
My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like ?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code; code code code; ? . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
Find where there sendmail is and put this in an .htaccess file: php_value sendmail_path '/path/to/sendmail -t' Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: [PHP] need some ideas here... My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like ?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code; code code code; ? . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
On 14 May 2001 16:59:48 -0700, Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... Did you try a popen with something /usr/bin/mail? (I assume you've checked the file paths to make sure they're correct) the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? PHP does allow arbitrary URLs to be loaded, so you could setup a script and simply do something like this: $email_script = fopen(http://someotherhost/mail/script.php?To=blah...;, r); $Status = fgetss($email_script); If you need to send large emails, you'll need to fake a POST request. I've had to do this the hard way in the past but I think there are a couple PHP classes floating around now which will let you do it. (And, of course, you could use CURL) Alternately, if you have a friendly mail server available, you could simply use one of the SMTP scripts available to send directly to the mail server. Check out phpclasses.upperdesign.com for a couple scripts. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
what??? I didn't understand... how will I find out where sendmail is in a free-web-host? I don't have telnet access... how can I figure that out? and how a .htaccess file would help me here? At 19:50 14/5/2001 -0500, Ethan Schroeder wrote: Find where there sendmail is and put this in an .htaccess file: php_value sendmail_path '/path/to/sendmail -t' Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: [PHP] need some ideas here... My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like ?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code; code code code; ? . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
If you have an account on a remote host, you can always do something like this: ?php include(http://www.remotehost.com/~myaccount/mailfunction.inc;); mymail($to, $mailbody); ? where mailfunction.inc has the mymail function defined to just take your parameters and stuff them into the standard mail(). Of course include()ing from remote hosts can be disabled when compiling PHP, and if your host is really evil, the will have disabled this too. Your last resort is to create your own mail function by fsockopen()ing a connection to port 25 of your SMTP server and sending raw SMTP commands. This would require some reading of the relevant mail RFCs...but is definitely feasible. Ben Gollmer On Monday, May 14, 2001, at 07:04 PM, Christian Dechery wrote: My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like ?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code; code code code; ? . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
I don't know how you can find sendmail on that system if you don't have telnet access. Try writing a script that does an exec(which sendmail) and see if it tells you. I doubt it will, though. Otherwise try different sendmail locations: /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail, etc. The .htacess file overwrites the value of the php.ini file, so you can specify to php where sendmail is for any script that is under the directory your .htaccess file resides in (unless they don't allow .htaccess). I've had to use this approach a couple times to get php to send mail off properly. Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ethan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here... what??? I didn't understand... how will I find out where sendmail is in a free-web-host? I don't have telnet access... how can I figure that out? and how a .htaccess file would help me here? At 19:50 14/5/2001 -0500, Ethan Schroeder wrote: Find where there sendmail is and put this in an .htaccess file: php_value sendmail_path '/path/to/sendmail -t' Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: [PHP] need some ideas here... My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like ?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code; code code code; ? . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
On 14 May 2001 19:04:43 -0700, Ben Gollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an account on a remote host, you can always do something like this: ?php include(http://www.remotehost.com/~myaccount/mailfunction.inc;); mymail($to, $mailbody); ? where mailfunction.inc has the mymail function defined to just take your parameters and stuff them into the standard mail(). Wouldn't this still run the code on the local server with the dysfunctional mail() command? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
I should correct myself. The .htaccess file doesn't overwrite the php.ini value, rather it overrides it. Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Ethan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here... I don't know how you can find sendmail on that system if you don't have telnet access. Try writing a script that does an exec(which sendmail) and see if it tells you. I doubt it will, though. Otherwise try different sendmail locations: /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail, etc. The .htacess file overwrites the value of the php.ini file, so you can specify to php where sendmail is for any script that is under the directory your .htaccess file resides in (unless they don't allow .htaccess). I've had to use this approach a couple times to get php to send mail off properly. Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ethan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here... what??? I didn't understand... how will I find out where sendmail is in a free-web-host? I don't have telnet access... how can I figure that out? and how a .htaccess file would help me here? At 19:50 14/5/2001 -0500, Ethan Schroeder wrote: Find where there sendmail is and put this in an .htaccess file: php_value sendmail_path '/path/to/sendmail -t' Ethan Schroeder - Original Message - From: Christian Dechery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: [PHP] need some ideas here... My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like ?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code; code code code; ? . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
On Monday, May 14, 2001, at 10:00 PM, Chris Adams wrote: On 14 May 2001 19:04:43 -0700, Ben Gollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an account on a remote host, you can always do something like this: ?php include(http://www.remotehost.com/~myaccount/mailfunction.inc;); mymail($to, $mailbody); ? where mailfunction.inc has the mymail function defined to just take your parameters and stuff them into the standard mail(). Wouldn't this still run the code on the local server with the dysfunctional mail() command? You are right - brain fart. Whomever suggested GETing or POSTing the mail text to a remote script earlier was correct. : ) Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls popen(/usr/lib/sendmail -t) and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' and all that stuff... the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... so what do I do? If you know an SMTP server that will allow you to relay mail, you can use fsockopen and write the mail directly to the port 25 on the relay server. I haven't tried it with PHP, but I've done something similar with tcl before. You might try finding something like this already written. -- Joe -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
