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Bug #10182 mail() $to parameter doesn't accept rfc822 style addresses
Submitted: 2001-04-05 09:46 UTC Modified: 2005-09-02 07:30 UTC
Votes:8
Avg. Score:4.8 ± 0.4
Reproduced:6 of 7 (85.7%)
Same Version:4 (66.7%)
Same OS:5 (83.3%)
From: apere at agilitime dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Mail related
PHP Version: 3CVS OS: Any Windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-04-05 09:46 UTC] apere at agilitime dot com 
Ok, I have found several notes telling that the following syntax works :

$to = "\"Arnaud PERE\" <apere@agilitime.com>";
mail ($to,"subject","message");

But when I try this, my SMTP server says :
(bad host/domain syntax: "agilitime.com>")

see the trailing ">"...

Instead, I tried the following syntax which appeared to work :

$to = "apere@agilitime.com (Arnaud PERE)";
mail ($to,"subject","message");

This problem does not appear on the Unix version of PHP4.04pl1, but only on the windows version.

Did I do something wrong ?

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 [2001-06-22 18:47 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
windows mail code *badly* needs a rewirte
 [2002-06-02 11:15 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
Updated summary, Version, Status, OS
 [2002-07-12 05:37 UTC] david at acz dot org 
Why does it have to be Windows only?  I would *really* like to see integrated SMTP support in PHP on UNIX platforms.  Keeping it Windows only seems silly.  Yes, I know it's easy to code SMTP stuff in PHP, but as long as the code is there...
 [2002-07-12 05:44 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
for now it will stay windows only at least as long
as we are not perfectily sure that the new code 
realy works

there is no use in replacing a working solution 
with stuff still marked as experimental 

(although mfisher did a lot of good work on it lately
 that improved the situation on windows quite a bit :)
 [2002-07-12 06:01 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
thx :)

to david: if you need that kind of feature maybe you should use the existing mail classes which support (e)smtp (there's one on pear.php.net and one on phpclasses.upperdesign.com )
 [2002-08-07 02:52 UTC] mbretter at jawa dot at 
the problem is, that the mail command itself adds < and > at the beginning and at the end of to-e-mail adress. if you have $to = '<mbretter@jawa.at>';

then implicit you have <<mbretter@inode.at>> and some mailservers don't like this.
 [2005-09-02 07:30 UTC] sniper@php.net 
There's already other report about this. (clearing out old reports forgotten due to a bug in bug system :)
 
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