mail using php

[DrTrans]

basically emailing form responce: 

I have my ini_set above variable Message

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ini_set("sendmail_from", "[email protected]");

$message  = "Here are your results";

$mailsubject = "Online Request from website";
    $headers  = "From: Elitecarolinas.com<$mainemail>\r\n";
    $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
    $who = "[email protected]";
    $sendmail = mail("[email protected]",$mailsubject,$message,$headers);
echo "Sent Mail"

 

Why would this not send mail?

[Muddy_Funster]

is there a reason that you are assigning the mail() to a variable?

[DrTrans]

yeah for this echo

echo "<BR/>mail() returned: " . ($sendmail? "TRUE" : "FALSE") . "<BR/>";

[DrTrans]

The responce of that echo statement comes back "True" however i dont recieve any mail

[Muddy_Funster]

What happens if you set it like this?

mail("[email protected]",$mailsubject,$message,$headers);
  $sendmail = mail("[email protected]",$mailsubject,$message,$headers);
echo "Sent Mail";

If that fails also I would have a look at the server SMTP settings you have set up

 

I have this setup on a server and it works fine:

$to      = $address;

$subject = 'Mail From : '.$sitename;

$message = $body;

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .

    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .

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

    'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" ;

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

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Feel free to copy and change/butcher for your own uses - even if it's just to test.

[mbeals]

I've fought with this on more than a few occasions.  The issue is always with the server's configuration.

 

****I'm assuming Linux server here....no idea how to work it on a windows machine**********

 

open up a second terminal and 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' then run the script.  You should get some errors that point you in the right direction.

 

Are you attempting to use sendmail or postfix?  have you modified your php.ini file?  Are you behind a firewall that blocks stmp traffic?

 

I've had the most luck using postfix to relay the mail out.