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[PaulCheung]

Can anybody help?

I am having problems trying to send automated emails using Linux, typically 
order confirmation emails. I don't know how it is set-up and according to 
the  manual I read it said "for unix only. You may supply arguments as well 
(default: 'sendmail -t -i). sendmail_path = sendmail -t -i;

This didn't not work. I use 1and1 and they have setup the sendmail and I 
found the sendmail path is /usr/sbin/sendmail

so I set sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t'; This doesn't work 
either - below is the snippet of code.
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$headers = 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t';

$date = date("Y-m-d");

     $to = "$email1";
     $subject = "Your Account Number";
     $message = "Thank you for choosing HANWELL PRODUCTS


PLEASE MAKE A CAREFUL NOTE OF THIS INFORMATION AS WITHOUT IT YOU WILL NOT BE 
ABLE ACCESS YOUR  HANWELL PRODUCTS ACCOUNT

Your USER-ID  is :  $userid

Your PASSWORD is :  $passcode

Your ACCOUNT  is :  $account

This Email was sent on : $account_date

";
$from    = "FROM: info at hanwellproducts.com";

echo "The email was sent : $date ";
mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Can anybody show me what I am doing wrong?

Paul