Warning: mail(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. 1

[tnsbuff]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with sending html mail from a form. I get an error:

Warning: mail(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled in SAFE MODE.

The 5th parameter is $mailheaders.

This is the related code:

$mailheaders = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$tfrom,$mailheaders);

I've searched high and low, but can't seem to come up with the right fix.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

 

[willyd61]

Well first you are missing the 1st header or the "From Header" at the beginning,
($headers = "From: \"Me\"<me@here.com>\n"
that makes it a malformed header.

There should only be 4 args...

$headers = "From: \"Me\"<me@here.com>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary\"";
mail('myAddress@hotmail.com', 'Email with attachment from PHP', $message, $headers);


Not sure if you are interested but you should look at the pear module for mail, makes life so much easier. here is a snippet for that package.


<?
include("Mail.php");

$recipients = "mail_to@domain.mail";

$headers["From"] = "mail_from@domain.mail";
$headers["To"] = "mail_to@domain.mail";
$headers["Subject"] = "Test message";

$body = "TEST MESSAGE!!!";

$params["host"] = "smtp.server";
$params["port"] = "25";
$params["auth"] = true;
$params["username"] = "user";
$params["password"] = "password";

// Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method
$mail_object =& Mail::factory("smtp", $params);

$mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $body);
?>

 

[tnsbuff]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Actually the variable $tfrom was the From parameter. This is a script that someone else wrote that I'm trying to troubleshoot.

Anyway, I added the $tfrom variable to the $mailheaders (cutting it down to 4 parameters) and now it works, except I'm getting this: MIME-Version: 1.0
. . . on the same line as my subject. How can I get rid of that?

Here's the relevant part of my code:

$tfrom = "From: {$nameVar}<$emailVar>";
$mailheaders = " MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$mailheaders .= "$tfrom \n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$mailheaders)

Thanks for your help.

 

[willyd61]

Try this...

$tfrom = "From: {$nameVar}<$emailVar>\r\n";
$mailheaders = " MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "$tfrom \r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$mailheaders)

 

[tnsbuff]

Thanks willyd61, but I just figured it out. I had a space at the beginning right before MIME-Version: 1.0\n

Once I removed that, the subject line didn't have the MIME-Version in it.

Thanks very much for taking a look though.