PHP Mail Quckie

randombar

Lads, have php5 running on a windows nt server.

the asp mail is working fine:

Set objCDOMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
objCDOMail.From    = "blah blah"
objCDOMail.To      = strTo
objCDOMail.Cc	   = strCc
objCDOMail.Subject = strSubject
objCDOMail.Body    = strBody
objCDOMail.Send
Set objCDOMail = Nothing

but the php version is crashing the page

function send_email($to,$msgsubject, $msg){
	@$CDONTS = new COM("CDONTS.NewMail");
	@$CDONTS->From = "blah blah"; 
	@$CDONTS->To = $to; 
	@$CDONTS->Subject = $msgsubject;
	@$CDONTS->BodyFormat = 1; 
	@$CDONTS->MailFormat = 1; 
	//@$CDONTS->AttachFile("c:\tmp\somefile.txt");
	@$CDONTS->Body = $msg;
	@$CDONTS->Send();
	@$CDONTS->Close();
	}

can anyone see anything wrong with it?

I'd prefer to use the simple mail command but won't work on stupid work server!

daymobrew

I am using the free sendmail for Windows (site down for me atm). It comes with XAMPP for Windows.

I point it at my hosting SMTP server and include the username/password for the 'from' account.
I use the PEAR Mail_Mime module to send my emails.
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include('Mail.php');
include('Mail/mime.php');

$to = 'recipient@another-domain.com';
$textfile = '/path/to/email/body.txt';
$file = '/path/to/attachment.doc';
$crlf = "\n";
$hdrs = array( 'From' => 'from_addr@domain.com', 'Subject' => 'The email subject' );
$mime = new Mail_mime($crlf);
// You can sent a string and FALSE instead of a file.
$mime->setTXTBody($textfile, TRUE);
// Obviously attaching a file is optional.
$mime->addAttachment($file);

//do not ever try to call these lines in reverse order
$body = $mime->get();
$hdrs = $mime->headers($hdrs);
$mail =& Mail::factory('mail');
$sendresult = $mail->send($to, $hdrs, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($sendresult))
print($sendresult->getMessage());
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