Email Script does not reach destination

[PHPNuStudent]

Hey Guys look at this code snippet :

//read a line from the file

$myFile = "MailFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$theData = fgets($fh);
fclose($fh);
echo $theData;

/send Email
$to = "'$theData'";
$subject = "AvailPay new customer Transaction Receipt";
//$message = "Welcome to AvailPay© .\r\nPlease keep this for your records\r\nBelow is your transaction information:\r\n";

$message = "welcome";

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

 

I'm reading a file and then using that line as the email address.

I get  the "Message successfully sent!" reply - but for some reason the email never arrived at the gmail destination, I also tried it with a yahoo email - same result.

 

The hosting service said the following:

 

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I'm using the mail() function, but for some reason the email is not getting to the destination. How would I use the relay-hosting.secureserver.net in PHP??? Or am I missing something. Thanks in advance.

[PHPNuStudent]

Guys I did away with the logic of reading a file with the email address:

 

Its writing the date garbled at times and two if several users registered simultaneously since  the form was generating the MailFile.txt  as a reference file for sending email each time form data was sent out, sooner or later Two users would be attempting to use the file at the same time, and one of the users would get an error message.  So I updated logic to directly use the variable with the email address instead of writing to a separate text file - that did the trick.

[abazoskib]

even so, check out http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

you should always use the correct headers.