Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 503 RCPT first (#5.5.1)

**j_admin** · 03-24-2010, 11:11 AM

Hi,

I have mail function but when I send it it appears to me as warning message like this

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 503 RCPT first (#5.5.1) in D:\Hosting\3181178\html\goldy\Bay\includes\functions.php on line 51

My php coding is like this

PHP Code:


        $subject    =    "Notice about reservation cancel";

        $body         = "<html>\n";

        $body         .= "<body style=\"font-family:Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#666666;\">\n";

        $body         .= "Notice about reservation cancel on Bay Airporter Express Inc";

        $body         .= "Your reservation is cancelled

                                Reservation Number : ".$res_num."";

        $body         .= "</body>\n";

        $body         .= "</html>\n";

        

        $headers      = "From: Admin<admin@baei.com>\r\n";

        $headers     .= "Reply-To: webmaster@baei.com\r\n";

        $headers     .= "Return-Path: webmaster@baei.com\r\n";

        $headers     .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

        $headers     .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

        

        mail($email, $subject, $body, $headers);

If any help would be great!

Cheers!!!

**BLiZZaRD** · 03-24-2010, 06:25 PM

503 is a bad sequence error. Usually means something isn't complete or is in a wrong order.

The one thing I noticed is there is no "to" so the script doesn't know who to send the email to. You are also using $email, which isn't defined anywhere.

If you are using extra headers you should probably use X-Mailer. It looks something like this:

PHP Code:


<?php

$to = "recipient@example.com";

$subject = "Hi!";

$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$headers = "From: sender@example.com\r\n" .

    "X-Mailer: php";

if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {

  echo("<p>Message sent!</p>");

 } else {

  echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");

 }

?>

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