problem with Mail() on testing server

[Sarah Atkinson]

I've been trying to test this mail form on my local machine and all i get is

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or Custom "From:" header missing

my custom function header is set to
$mail_header='From: satkinson$myemail.org';

and i have that set int he ini file too. I also set the SMTP server in the ini file to our mail server's static ip address.

So can anyone tell me why it will not work?

Sarah

[jatar_k]

is the $myemail var supposed to resolve? It won't inside single quotes.

You also need "\r\n" at the end of each line in the mail header, these have to be inside double quotes or they will just be literals and not the proper CR LF

[Sarah Atkinson]

satkinson$myemail.org

that is supose to be an @ instead of a $(I guess I got a little $$$ happy.)
with the (/n)s

I don't quite understand the ""

do you mean "bla bla bla /n"

or "bla bla bla "/n""

[jatar_k]

$mail_header="From: [e-mail]\r\n";

that would be the right way

[Sarah Atkinson]

It still wouldn't work.. however when I loaded it onto the remote server it worked. Iguess as long as it works there everything is fine right?

[jatar_k]

sorry, MIA for a few days

>> as long as it works there

true enough ;)

Is your remote server a *nix server or is it a windows box as well?

[Sarah Atkinson]

windows

[jatar_k]

if you did want to check this out more you could put up a phpinfo() page up on each and take a look at the differences.