Mail doesn't send

[fluidsharp]

Hi all,

I cannot send mail from one paid hosting, but from another I can (it is some free hosting)

How to debug or find out why it doesn't send mails?

 

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

if (isset($clientName) && isset($clientEmail) && isset($clientMessage))
  {
$to  = "first@mail.ru";//. ", "; 
//$to .= "second@mail.ru";

$subject = "test mail from site";
$message = $clientMessage;

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";


$l = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($l){echo "true";}else echo "false";
echo $l."<h3>Mail was sent</H3>";
print_r(error_get_last());
 error_log("error ", 1,"first@mail.ru");

  }

?>

 

Thank you in advance!

[AyKay47]

1. what error(s) are you receiving in you error.log?

2. have you tried a simple test such as mail('email@test.com','test','a test message'); to isolate the SMTP server as the culprit?

[fluidsharp]

error.log I didn't find.

But example from http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php  (Example #4 Sending HTML email) works.

I think if I change $message = $clientMessage; to $message = "Test"; it will work.

I will check.

 

PS $clientMessage gets data from POST <textarea>.

 

 

 

[TeNDoLLA]

Try adding From: to the headers.

[AyKay47]

Try adding From: to the headers.

true, i missed this originally, in order for the mail function to work, a from header must be specified, either in the header parameter or in the php.ini file.

Your first step will be to add that to the function

[fluidsharp]

Try adding From: to the headers.

true, i missed this originally, in order for the mail function to work, a from header must be specified, either in the header parameter or in the php.ini file.

Your first step will be to add that to the function

 

it helped thanks! but why it works on an another server?

[AyKay47]

most likely the FROM header is specified in the php.ini file on the other server, so it is not needed at runtime