Sendmail

[brogan]

Hi, I have the following email form on contact.htm

<FORM method=post action="sendmail.php">
Email: <INPUT name="email" type="text"><br>
Message:<br>
<TEXTAREA name="message">
</textarea><br>
<input type=submit>
</FORM>

The details from this are sent to sendmail.php, below

<?
mail( "root@mydomain.com", "Feedback Form Results",
"$message", "From: $email", "mail.mydomain.com" );
header( "Location:

http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.htm"

);
?>

The email reaches the email box and the subject "Feedback Form Results" appears, however "unknown" is displayed in the "from" box and there is nothing in the message part of the email.

Any help is appreciated

Mark

 

[sleipnir214]

If the message field is blank, I'm wondering is you have register_globals turned off. Try $_POST['message'] instead.

Specifically what mail server are you using? It can make a difference as to how to get the "From" header right.


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[brogan]

It's using the mail server provided by my host streamline.net

Thanks

Mark

 

[sleipnir214]

That doesn't really tell me enough. And it is important as to how to set your "From" header correctly.

Can they tell you? Is it sendmail, qmail, postfix, other?


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[brogan]

Pretty sure it's sendmail (

http://www.streamline.net/support/doc_sendmail.php).

Mark

 

[sleipnir214]

It looks to me like the example code they've provided is pretty explicit. It looks like you're missing the last parameter to the function call.

Just pay attention to my earlier advice about register_globals and using $_POST. See

http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php

and section 1.1 if faq434-2999


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