[SOLVED] mail() function is not working, any ideas?

[kratsg]

So, I'll show you two codes in a class which handles the loading of the variables in the email, and actually sending the email itself:

 

<?php


        public function load_email($to='',$subject='',$message='',$cc='',$bcc='',$mail_type='') {

                //always be sure everything has been defaulted just in case it somehow cached
                $this->recipient = null;
                $this->subject = null;
                $this->message = null;
                $this->sender = "hanyTV <webmaster@hany.tv>";
                $this->cc = null;
                $this->bcc = null;
                $this->headers = null;
                $this->loaded = false;

                if(empty($to)){
                        return array(false,"missing","recipient");
                } elseif(empty($subject)){
                        return array(false,"missing","subject");
                } elseif(empty($message)){
                        return array(false,"missing","message");
                } elseif(!$this->check_email_address($to)){
                        return array(false,"invalid format","recipient");
                } elseif(!empty($cc) && !is_array($cc)){
                        return array(false,"invalid format","cc");
                } elseif(!empty($bcc) && !is_array($bcc)){
                        return array(false,"invalid format","bcc");
                }

                $this->recipient = $to;
                $this->subject = $subject;
                $this->message = wordwrap($message,70);
                $this->sender = "From: ".$this->sender."\r\n";

                if(!empty($cc)){
                        $this->cc .= "Cc: ";
                        foreach($cc as $add){
                                $this->cc .= "$add, ";
                        }
                        $this->cc .= "\r\n";
                }

                if(!empty($bcc)){
                        $this->bcc .= "Bcc: ";
                        foreach($bcc as $add){
                                $this->bcc .= "$add, ";
                        }
                        $this->bcc .= "\r\n";
                }

                //format the headers correctly with the From,CC,BCC, etc...

                if($mail_type == 'html'){//send html mail by formatting headers FIRST
                        $this->headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
                        $this->headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
                } else {//we are not sending html mail, so we must strip the message of all html
                        $this->message = strip_tags($this->message);
                }
                $this->headers .= $this->sender.$this->cc.$this->bcc;
                $this->loaded_email = true;
                return array(true);
        }

        public function send_email() {
                if($this->loaded_email){
                        $sent = mail($this->recipient,$this->subject,$this->message,$this->headers);
                        echo "<textarea rows=4 style='width:100%;'>mail(".$this->recipient.",".$this->subject.",".$this->message.",".$this->headers.");</textarea>";
                        return array($sent);
                } else {
                        return array(false,"did not call","load_email()");
                }
        }
?>

 

load_email() is a function, inserting the values as needed, will validate each value, and basically build the headers for the email.

send_email() does what it says, if load_email() was executed successfully, it will send the email. As you see in the code, I had it output a textarea to show exactly what values I was passing to the mail() function:

 

mail(********@aol.com,Hey,I've got some things for you to look at if you have time.,From: hanyTV <webmaster@hany.tv>
);

 

The output tells me that I'm passing the values into the function CORRECTLY, and yet it will not send :-\

 

On another note, looking into php.net's manual, i tried the following code:

 

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

And it didn't work, directly by using php.net's code, and I'm still not getting any errors. Any ideas?

[sKunKbad]

Try sending a simple mail:

 

<?php
// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('caffinated@example.com', 'My Subject', $message);
?>

 

If something simple won't work, then the problem is the server, not the code.

[kratsg]

Ok, so I've tried a different domain, and it looks like it works with a @gmail.com address.

 

Also, it works with @yahoo.com. It seems like it fails with any @aol.com address (which confuses me). I've checked the spam folder, and the email just never gets sent. Anyone know why AOL would not receive the email?

 

Try sending a simple mail:

 

<?php
// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('caffinated@example.com', 'My Subject', $message);
?>

 

If something simple won't work, then the problem is the server, not the code.

 

I tried sending your simple email code, and it does work, just not with an AOL domain (and perhaps some others, but I don't have THAT many different email accounts o_o)

[kratsg]

Ok, so I've finally solved it with a VERY weird solution.

 

The additional parameter in the mail() function must be set for AOL mail to even accept it (something about not having "nothing@" for a default email address which is set by your host).

 

So it looks like this:

 

mail("recipient","subject","message","headers","-fYOURNAME@YOURDOMAIN");

 

Where yourname@yourdomain was a web mail account that was set up through cPanel.

[sKunKbad]

This is actually pretty normal behavior.

[kratsg]

Well, I have another website that sends mail just fine to AOL without that additional parameter. So, relative to that site, it was very odd.

[rpmorrow]

Hi,

 

I seem to be having the same problem but I can't get it working. I've tried making a simple example, but it still no good...

 

<?php

$to = "myemailaddress@hotmail.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi, How are you?";
$headers="From: user@domainofsite.co.uk \r\n" .
							"Reply-To: user@domainofsite.co.uk \r\n" .
							"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();

if (mail("$to","$subject","$body","$headers")) {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
  echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}

?>

 

It always says it is sent, but I get nothing. There is another page on the site using the mail() function and it works fine. I just can't see why.