Hello,
I am have problems with sending out emails. I am getting the following message:

Code:

PHP Warning:  mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: SMTP server re sponse: 554 SMTP synchronization error in C:\Documents and Settings\Garrie Power s\Desktop\PHP Mail\phpmail.php on line 73

Can anyone help me in identifying where and what the problem is?

The PHP code below is being executed from the command line via a BAT file.

The code is
Code:

<?php $subject="National Student Survey";           // The email subject $from   ="From:ns-survey@kcl.ac.uk\r\n";     // Who the email is from $ReplyTo="Reply-To:ns-survey@kcl.ac.uk\r\n"; // Who replies should be sent to // Extra header information $extraHeader= $from . $ReplyTo . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion(); ini_set('sendmail_from', $from); $lines = file('Test data.csv');  // Read the whol file into an array //Go through each line of the array foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {   $details = explode(",",trim($line)); // Split the line up   $sendTo  = $details[0]; // Student's email address   $SCJ_CODE= $details[1]; // Student Number   $SCE_SRTN= $details[2]; // Name // Message text $message=" Reasons for non-participation (reply to ns-survey@kcl.ac.uk). ***$SCJ_CODE      $SCE_SRTN I confirm that I do not wish to participate in the National Student Survey   [   ] My reason for not participating is (please mark one of the following boxes and delete the other options): a)[   ]  I do not wish my personal details to be used for the purposes of this survey b)[   ]  I believe that participation will exacerbate my health difficulties c)[   ]  I believe I have been wrongly selected for inclusion in the survey. Please note that instead of passing your personal contact details through to HEFCE/Ipsos, the above reason, in coded form, will be passed through instead.   ";                     mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $extraHeader);   sleep(1); }   ini_restore('sendmail_from'); ?>

You're running on a Windows box - slightly more complex as the sendmail is probably on another box and more configurable.  Some thoughts / ideas:

a) I would tend to cut the \r out of the extra headers as a test (they may or may not be needed)

b) Try a simple test (or have you already) with just a mail command to a fixed address, with a simple subject and one or two lines of text and see if that works

c) have a look at the php.ini; the SMTP configuration information in there applies to Windows. Make sure that you are talking to the right server

d) Make sure that your sendmail server can accept connections from the machine your PHP is running on and all the necessary authorisations are there.



Hello Graham,
Thanks for the reply. In the end I found a different solution using PHP. I found a PHP mailing list function which, after modification, did what I wanted. The difference is that this code connects directly to the SMTP server and works fine on Windows. I have included my modified version below. The original function can be found at http://www.greywyvern.com/php.php

Garrie
Code:

<?php /* *************************************************************** * Socket_mail Function v1.4 *  A simple and efficient mailing list function * Copyright (C) 2004 GreyWyvern * * This program may be distributed under the terms of the GPL *   - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt * * Tested using a Linux SMTP server.  I am unsure how a Windows * SMTP server will react to this function; it may need some * tweaking. * * This function accepts an array of email addresses in the form: * * array("Recipient's Name 1 <email@address1.com>", *       "Recipient's Name 2 <email@address2.com>", *       "Recipient's Name 3 <email@address3.com>", *       ...); * * See the inline comments and http://www.greywyvern.com/php.php * for more info *************************************************************** */  // Setup  $fromName = "Brian Salter";  $fromEmail = "ns-survey@kcl.ac.uk";  $fromMailer = "Socketmail v2.0";  $smtp = "smtp.kcl.ac.uk";  $smtp_port = 25;  $charset = "ISO-8859-1";  $toArray = file('Test data.csv');  // Read the whole file into an array   // The file is in the format EMAIL, SCJ_CODE, SCE_SRTN  $subject = "National Student Survey";  $baseMessage=" Reasons for non-participation (reply to ns-survey@kcl.ac.uk). ***SCJ_CODE      SCE_SRTN I confirm that I do not wish to participate in the National Student Survey   [   ] My reason for not participating is (please mark one of the following boxes and delete the other options): a)[   ]  I do not wish my personal details to be used for the purposes of this survey b)[   ]  I believe that participation will exacerbate my health difficulties c)[   ]  I believe I have been wrongly selected for inclusion in the survey. Please note that instead of passing your personal contact details through to HEFCE/Ipsos, the above reason, in coded form, will be passed through instead. ";  // Strip "\r" from the message (if it came from a form input)  $baseMessage = str_replace(chr(13), "", $baseMessage);  $baseMessage = str_replace("\r\n.", "\r\n..", str_replace("\n", "\r\n", stripslashes($baseMessage))." \r\n");  ini_set('sendmail_from', $fromEmail);  $connect = @fsockopen ($smtp, $smtp_port, $errno, $errstr, 5);    if (!$connect) return false;    $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024); //  fputs($connect, "HELO {$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n");  fputs($connect, "HELO 127.0.0.1\r\n");    $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);  foreach ($toArray as $to) {    $toBits   = explode(",", $to);    $toRcpt   = trim($toBits[0]);    $SCJ_CODE = $toBits[1];    $SCE_SRTN = $toBits[2];    $searchFor   = array("SCJ_CODE", "SCE_SRTN");    $replaceWith = array($SCJ_CODE , $SCE_SRTN );    $message     = str_replace($searchFor, $replaceWith, $baseMessage);    fputs($connect, "RSET\r\n");      $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);    fputs($connect, "MAIL FROM:$fromEmail\r\n");      $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);    fputs($connect, "RCPT TO:$toRcpt\r\n");      $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);    fputs($connect, "DATA\r\n");      $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);    fputs($connect, "Subject: $subject\r\n");    fputs($connect, "From: $fromName <$fromEmail>\r\n");    fputs($connect, "To: $toRcpt\r\n");    fputs($connect, "X-Sender: <$fromEmail>\r\n");    fputs($connect, "Return-Path: <$fromEmail>\r\n");    fputs($connect, "Errors-To: <$fromEmail>\r\n");    fputs($connect, "Message-Id: <".md5(uniqid(rand())).".".preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/i", "", $fromName)."@$smtp>\r\n");    fputs($connect, "X-Mailer: PHP - $fromMailer\r\n");    fputs($connect, "X-Priority: 3\r\n");    fputs($connect, "Date: ".date("r")."\r\n");    fputs($connect, "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset\r\n");    fputs($connect, "\r\n");    fputs($connect, $message);    fputs($connect, "\r\n.\r\n");      $rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);  }  fputs ($connect, "QUIT\r\n");    $rcv = fgets ($connect, 1024);  fclose($connect);  ini_restore('sendmail_from'); ?>

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