Re: Can't figure mail & post out

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:37:52 +0530, Zareef Ahmed <zareef.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
>  Please take a look at php manual and try to know something about
> $_POST, $_GET etc.
> Your code is full of errors.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 15:33:30 -0500, Robert <sigler@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  $sendto = "$row[1]";
> >   echo "<br>Row one output = $sendto<br>";
> >   mail ($_POST['sendto'],'Testing', $body, $headers);
> Again you are sending the mail to same person very time.

no, that part is correct.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result, MYSQL_NUM)) {
...
 mail ($_POST['sendto'],'Testing', $body, $headers);
 echo "Sent to $row[1]<br>";}     // <--*
 mysql_free_result ($result);

* the values are retrieved and used in the loop, the mail IS going to
the right person.

> >  $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> >  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
> >  $headers .= "From: ";
> From is not set, value is not here.

this is the part that's causing the problem. u can leave it empty and
let the system put the admin's email id. don't leave it incomplete
though.

i agree that there are logical errors regarding the data he's used,
but that's not why it didn't work.

@Robert: u may want to print/echo all the vars for mail() before using
it, helps to debug. check all $POST vars too. this is how i generally
set the headers:
$headers = "From: $fname <$from_email>\n"."Return-Path: $ret"."\n";

i use return path so that bounce messages/delivery failures go to another id.

if u want to add the X-Mailer header:
$headers.= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion()."\n";
(note  ^^^ the dot)

if still doesn't work, replace ur \r\n with \n. check manual page for details.

considering that u're possibly mass mailing...
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
[quote]
    Note:  It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable
for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes
an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.

    For the sending of large amounts of email, see the PEAR::Mail, and
PEAR::Mail_Queue packages.
[/quote]
u could also open a pipe to the mail program...
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Getting-Intimate-With-PHPs-Mail-Function/2/

hth

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