mail() returns false but email is sent

[SonyaS]

Hi, I'm pretty new to PHP and I am working on a form that sends and email. I want to display a message if the mail can't be sent (i.e. if mail() returns false) and a different message if mail() returns true, except it is returning false even though the emails are sending.

 

 

Basically I have used:

 

$to = '[email protected]';

$subject = "Subject Line Goes here";

$headers = "From: $email";

$message = 'My message';

 

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

 

In testing it I have used the following to determine what is going on:

 

if (isset($mailSent)) { echo '$mailSent ='.$mailSent; } - echo's nothing

if ($mailSent == FALSE) { echo '$mailSent = FALSE'; } - echo's '$mailSent = FALSE'

if ($mailSent == TRUE) { echo '$mailSent = TRUE'; } - echo's nothing

if (is_null($mailSent)) { echo '$mailSent = NULL'; } - echo's '$mailSent = NULL'

echo '$mailSent ='.$mailSent; - echo's '$mailSent ='

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Pikachu2000]

if( $mailSent ) {
echo 'Mail Sent.';
} else {
echo 'Mail Not Sent.';
}

// To see what is actually contained by $mailSent
var_dump($mailSent);

[SonyaS]

Hi Pikachu2000,

 

Thanks for your help.

 

I should have said that previously I had the 'if ($mailSent) { echo 'Mail Sent'; } else { echo 'Mail not sent'; }' statement and this was returning back with the else response when the mail was actually sent.

 

The var_dum($mailSent) returns NULL.