Hi Paul, It looks like you need to add quotes around the items in the mail function even though they're variables.
This works for me, I receive an email when someone contacts me from a web form: mail ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Contact the web master", "$message_body", "From: {$_POST['email']}"); Try a simple one (see below), then add variables: mail ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Test Title", "Test Message", "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); ---- Joe Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "PaulCheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk@lists.nyphp.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:57 PM Subject: [nyphp-talk] Setting up outgoing mail using Linux > Can anybody help? > > I am having problems trying to send automated emails using Linux, typically > order confirmation emails. I don't know how it is set-up and according to > the manual I read it said "for unix only. You may supply arguments as well > (default: 'sendmail -t -i). sendmail_path = sendmail -t -i; > > This didn't not work. I use 1and1 and they have setup the sendmail and I > found the sendmail path is /usr/sbin/sendmail > > so I set sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t'; This doesn't work > either - below is the snippet of code. > ================================================================ > $headers = 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); > sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t'; > > $date = date("Y-m-d"); > > $to = "$email1"; > $subject = "Your Account Number"; > $message = "Thank you for choosing HANWELL PRODUCTS > > > PLEASE MAKE A CAREFUL NOTE OF THIS INFORMATION AS WITHOUT IT YOU WILL NOT BE > ABLE ACCESS YOUR HANWELL PRODUCTS ACCOUNT > > Your USER-ID is : $userid > > Your PASSWORD is : $passcode > > Your ACCOUNT is : $account > > This Email was sent on : $account_date > > "; > $from = "FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > > echo "The email was sent : $date "; > mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers); > ?> > > Can anybody show me what I am doing wrong? > > Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php