PHP mail() in Windows

[Donk]

I'm having trouble sending emails with the PHP mail() function on a fasthosts Windows server.

Initially any mail that I tried to send to an address other than to one on the same server gave me the resonse 551: Bad recipient.

I've added

PHP Code:

ini_set("SMTP","mail.myurl.com");
ini_set("sendmail_from", "sales@myurl.com"); 


The error message has now disappearet but the mail is still not getting through.

Any help would be appreciated.

[mcol]

are you able to check the badmail directory to see if it's gone in there? Or it might be spam filtering at the far end - do you have a message and a body? Have you tried sending to a few different addresses. Perhaps adding an SPF record to your dns would help.

best of luck

[esnagel]

The problems I've had in the past regarding mail() on Windows is that my message had linebreaks of simply \n, whereas Windows requires \r\n

Eric

[Donk]

Thanks for your suggestions but no luck.

I've tried to send to many email accounts so that is not the problem. It works when I send to sales@myurl.com so the format is correct.

I think it could be the way the SMTP was set up on the server so I'm wading through the microsoft knowledge base to see if there is a problem there.

regards