Hi Maciek, admin,
Thanks for your responses.
Its really helpful.
Regards
Ashwani
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Maciek Sokolewicz
maciek.sokolew...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23-05-2012 06:12, Ashwani Kesharwani wrote:
Hi ,
I have a query w.r.t. mail() function in php.
I have hosted my site and i have created an email account as well.
when i am sending mail to different recipient from my php script using
above function it is getting delivered to respective recipients as
expected.
However if I want to see those mail in the sent folder of my email account
, i can not see those mails there.
How can I achieve this.
Any suggestions.
Regards
Ashwani
Simply put: the email account you have created is being ignored by the
mail() function.
It doesn't matter if you created an email account or not; if I wanted to,
I could make mail() send emails from presid...@whitehouse.gov or from
kofi.an...@un.org. The mails would never appear in their outboxes, simply
because an outbox or sent mail folder is a local copy of your mail, made by
the mail client. It has nothing, intrinsically, to do with emailing anyone.
If I try email someone, this happens:
1. I load my mail client
2. I type my mail and press send
3. My mail client stores a copy of this mail in the sent folder
4. My mail client contacts the server, and tells it that it has a mail
from me, to a certain adress, and then hands it over.
5. My mail client tells me mail sent successfully
If I use PHP's mail function, the following happens:
1. The PHP script is ran
2. The mail() function is invoked with the email message to send as a
string
3. The mail() function starts up a local program called sendmail (or a
program which does roughly the same thing), which it then gives the entire
message to send to.
4. sendmail contacts the server, and tells it that it has a mail from me,
to a certain adress, and then hands it over.
5. the mail() function says mail sent succesfully
So, as you can see, the storage of the email in the sent box has nothing
to do with actual sending of the mail, but purely with the use of your mail
client, which PHP does not use (obviously). If you really do want to store
the email, you'll have to do it yourself. admin (which is an annoying
nickname on the internet! Please change it!) has already showed you a few
ways to do so.
