mixed $recipients - an array or a string with comma separated recipients.
array $headers - an associative array of headers. The header name is used as key and the header value as value.
string $body - the body of the email.
Table 36-1. Possible PEAR_Error values
| Mailer driver | Error code | Error message | Reason | Solution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sendmail/smtp | NULL | "No from address given." | The $headers array requires at least a from entry. |
Add a from header:
| |
| sendmail | NULL | "From address specified with dangerous characters." | The from entry in the $headers array contains one ore more characters which could be non-RFC compliant | Check the given from address for characters like: spaces or ; or & or ` (backtick) | |
| sendmail | NULL | "sendmail [path to sendmail] not executable" | The path to sendmail program is not correct. No sendmail executable found there. | Check the $param['sendmail_path'] entry in your Mail::factory() call. If you use another mailer then sendmail, ie. qmail, check installation of the mailer. Normally it should includes a sendmail wrapper. | |
| sendmail | NULL | "sendmail returned error code code" | Sendmail returns a error, which must be handled by use. | See the documention of your mailer programm. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to instantiate Net_SMTP object" | Failure in class creation | Reinstall/update the Net_SMTP package. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to connect to smtp server host:port" | Connect to SMTP server failed | Check $param['port'] and $param['host'] entries in your Mail::factory() call. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to authenticate to smtp server" | Authentication failed | Check $param['auth'], $param['username'] and $param['password'] entries in your Mail::factory() call. Ensure to use the correct authentication method for the SMTP server. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to identify smtp server" | Start request to SMTP server failed | Check the RFC-compliances of the SMTP server to connect. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to set sender to from" | Sending the from address failed | Check the RFC-compliances of the from address and the server connnectivity. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to add recipient recipient:error code " | Sending of recipient address failed | Check the RFC-compliances of the recipient address and the server connnectivity. | |
| smtp | NULL | "unable to send data" | Body of the mail message could not send | Check the RFC-compliances of the message body and the server connnectivity. |
<?php
include('Mail.php');
$recipients = 'joe@example.com';
$headers['From'] = 'richard@example.com';
$headers['To'] = 'joe@example.com';
$headers['Subject'] = 'Test message';
$body = 'Test message';
$params['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/lib/sendmail';
// Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method
$mail_object =& Mail::factory('sendmail', $params);
$mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $body);
?> |