fake sendmail for windows - php

I am using fake mail for windows, For long time i got a problem with the FIRST mail i am sending, What i mean is that for example i am using php so i will use this line:
mail("example#gmail.com", "hey", "bye");
If i will load the page with this mail function for the first time the mail function will return false, But the second time and third and so on it will work, But, After some time i can not determine how long exactly, I can say the gmail mail server "going to sleep", And again when i am sending a mail for the first time its like, Ohh you need a mail to send give me a second(the first mail return false), After the mail server got the second it wanted it will send the mail(return true), I did follow this tut, The error appear at the error.log is: Connection Closed Gracefully., Now as i see it there is a problem on my gmail account(some setting i should change), Anyway If anyone got any idea i will be very thankful, Thank you all and have a nice day.

After researching this bug, it seems to be a bug of the mail() function. One alternative is to download the phpMailer library, and implement your mail function there. The other alternative, since you say that the second time it always works, is:
if (!mail("example#gmail.com", "hey", "bye"))
mail("example#gmail.com", "hey", "bye");
In other words, if it fails once then you try again. You might insert a 300-milisecond pause there in case Google needs some time to come back from sleep.

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I've been searching a lot, but can't really find what i exactly need.
Im running a shop-online using XAMPP, and what i want is send emails to the customers with their order but using a specific function.
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Get the $iban from customers, and show only the first and last 5
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Spam check before sending using Zend_Mail

I'm using Zend_Mail and the following code to send my email messages.
$mail = new Zend_Mail('UTF-8');
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http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/spamc.html
Spamc is the client half of the spamc/spamd pair. It should be used in
place of spamassassin in scripts to process mail. It will read the
mail from STDIN, and spool it to its connection to spamd, then read
the result back and print it to STDOUT. Spamc has extremely low
overhead in loading, so it should be much faster to load than the
whole spamassassin program.
You can do use in PHP by:
Writing the message into a temporary file and running shell_exec('spamc < message.tmp'), or
Running the command with proc_open() then send message via STDIN.
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php mail function cannot send to name.sirname#doman.com ??i

I'm having trouble when sending emails thorough the mail() function.
I have a script that works perfectly fine for an email address like name#domain.com but when the first part of the email is something with a dot like name.surname#domain.com it doesn't work and returns this error :
Warning: mail() [function.mail ]: SMTP server response: 554 : Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied in confirmed.php on line 119
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If the code below fails with this error, then DeeD is partially correct - but it's not relaying which is broken - the address re-writing rules are completely ^&*(ed up.
<php
mail('name.surname#domain.com','hello','test');
?>
Also try:
However this would be a phenomonally stupid error on the part of the person who set up the MTA. I susepct its much more likely that code elsewhere may be modifying the address before the call to mail(...) or that your analysis is incomplete. If this is the case, then neither of the tests above will return the original error - instrument your code to find out where the address is being changed.
Alternatively, if the MTA really doesn't like a . in the name - go buy a cattle prod for the person who configured it.
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http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-body.php
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EDIT AFTER YOUR COMMENTS
Have you looked at this method?:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-clearflag-full.php
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