[FreeBSD 5.2.1] Sendmail is being a b!tch

[Glaanieboy]

Doesnt matter all that much. And PHP likes to send sendmail flags which qmail-injecct might not understand.

... As I found out a few minutes ago. I sent a mail yesterday using the php mailer system, but it took 6 hours to come to me. The reason why is that it was sent from anonymous@server1.thuisnet.lan, looks like qmail-inject doesn't recognise the -f<email_from> flag. Back to sendmail (the qmail wrapper version then ).

 

[X-Istence]

Or you need to add some proper headers to your emails, and add your own From: Glaanieboy <something@somethingelse.com> line.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Nah, it's fine as it is. The qmail sendmail wrapper is good enough.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Uhm...

    $site_title = $settings_fetch['title'];
    $headers = "FROM: \"Title Here\" <glaanieboy@gmail.com>";
    if (mail($email,"Registration mail for ".$settings_fetch['title'],$mail_body,$headers)){
    //Rest of code here

Doesn't work. I also added \r\n right after the last >, but it just doesn't work. Back to -f then

 

[X-Istence]

write your own mailer that uses smtp. A lot easier and it is gauranteed to work.

 

[Glaanieboy]

write your own mailer that uses smtp. A lot easier and it is gauranteed to work.

In PHP?

 

[X-Istence]

<?php

// $Id: mailer.inc.php,v 1.9 2004/10/09 00:25:32 xistence Exp $
// -----------------------------------------------------------
// (C) 2002 - 2003 X-Istence.com
//
// Author: Jan-Willem Regeer
//         [email]xistence@x-istence.com[/email]
// -----------------------------------------------------------

// X-Istence.com Mailer Class 

class XI_Mailer { 
        private $to; 
        private $from; 
        private $header; 
        private $message; 
        private $data; 
        private $data_orig; 
        
        var $server_adress      = "localhost";
        var $server_port        = "25";
        var $server_username    = "";
        var $server_password    = "";
        
        function to($to) { 
                if(issarray($to) {
                        $this->to = $to; // Has to be an array.
                }
                else 
                        die("What kind of coding are you doing?"); 
        } 
        
        function from ($from) { 
                $this->from = $from; // Has to be a single adress 
        } 
        
        function subject($subject) { 
                $this->subject = $subject; 
        } 
        
        function mheader($custom = "") { 
                if ($custom == "") { 
                        $this->header  = "To: {email_name} <{email_usermail}>\r\n"; 
                        $this->header .= "From: {name} <{mail_from}>\r\n"; 
                        $this->header .= "Reply-To: {name} <{mail_from}>\r\n"; 
                        $this->header .= "Subject: {email_subject}\r\n"; 
                        $this->header .= "Return-Path: {name} <{mail_from}>\r\n";
                        $this->header .= "Bounce-To: {name} <{mail_from}>\r\n";
                        $this->header .= "Errors-To: {name} <{mail_from}>\r\n"; 
                        $this->header .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n"; 
                        $this->header .= "X-Mailer: X-Istence.com Mailer\r\n"; 
                } 
                else { 
                        $this->header = $custom; 
                } 
        } 
        
        function message ($message) { 
                $this->message = $message; 
        } 
        
        function send () { 
                $this->compile_entire(); 
        
                $connect = fsockopen ($this->server_adress , $this->server_port , $errno, $errstr, 5) or die("Mail server is down. Please hit your back button, and try again"); 
                $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                fputs($connect, "EHLO {$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n"); 
                $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
        
                $x = count($this->to); 
        
                for ($y = 0; $y < $x; $y++) { 
                        $stuff['name']              = $this->from['name']; 
                        $stuff['mail_from']         = $this->from['mail']; 
                        $stuff['email_name']        = $this->to[$y]['email_name']; 
                        $stuff['email_usermail']    = $this->to[$y]['email_usermail']; 
                        $stuff['email_subject']     = $this->subject; 
                
                
                        fputs($connect, "MAIL FROM: ". $this->from['name'] ." <". $this->from['mail'] .">\r\n"); 
                        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                        fputs($connect, "RCPT TO: ". $this->to[$y]['email_name'] ." <". $this->to[$y]['email_usermail'] .">\r\n"); 
                        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                        fputs($connect, "DATA\r\n"); 
                        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                        fputs($connect, preg_replace("/\{(.+?)\}/e", "\$stuff['\\1']", $this->data)); 
                        fputs($connect, ".\r\n"); 
                        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                        fputs($connect, "RSET\r\n"); 
                        $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                } 
        
                fputs($connect, "QUIT\r\n"); 
                $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); 
                fclose($connect); 
        
        } 
        
        function compile_entire() { 
                $this->data  = $this->header; 
                $this->data .= "\r\n"; 
                $this->data .= $this->message; 
                $this->data .= "\r\n"; 
        } 
} 
?>

I'll leave it up to you to figure out how to make it do its magic .

 

[X-Istence]

here is a sample:

				$to['0']['email_name']          = chop($_POST['username']);
				$to['0']['email_usermail']      = chop($_POST['email']);
				$from['name']                   = "X-Istence.com";
				$from['mail']                   = "register-bounce@x-istence.com";

				$message  = "Thank You for Registering\r\n";
				$message .= "\r\n";
				$message .= "Your Information:\r\n";
				$message .= "Username: ". chop($_POST['username']) ."\r\n";
				$message .= "Password: ". chop($_POST['password']) ."\r\n";
				$message .= "\r\n\r\nPlease copy and paste or click the link below to activate your account:\r\n";
				$message .= "http://x-istence.com/activate.php?email=". chop($_POST['email']) ."&rid=". chop($_POST['activate_rid']) ."\r\n";
				$message .= "\r\n\r\nIf you did not request an account at X-Istence.com, please do not reply or click the link above.\r\n";
				$message .= "Your email adress will be deleted from the database within the next 24 hours.\r\n";
				$message .= "\r\n\r\n-- X-Istence.com Register Bot\r\n";

				require("./includes/mailer.inc.php");
				$mail = new XI_mailer;
				$mail->to($to);
				$mail->from($from);
				$mail->subject("X-Istence.com Registering Activation");
				$mail->mheader();
				$mail->message($message);
				$mail->send();

That should help you along. Might want to put a Date: date() (Read PHP.net for the proper variable you need to make it email compatible) in the header some place, but besides that it is fully usable.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Oh, I see, you directly send commands to the SMTP server, clever. Thank you bigtime for the code, I'll have a play with it and tell you the results. Thanks again!

 

[X-Istence]

Off course it is clever, no more screwing around with php mail() and getting that to work.

 

[Glaanieboy]

BUt one thing I am worried about, is it guaranteed to work with every SMTP server? In other words, are these standard commands? Also, can you send attachments using the function you created.