php mail() returns false !?

[pokernarr]

first:  Hi to all of you! Im new to this forum and registered because i had the following problem with the mail()-function

i used the same code (header-code and mail-code) in another form where everything works well.. var_dumping the mail()'s result returns false (so its no mailer-side issue)

What else shall i try? (i also tried \r\n instead of \n-only in the header-code)

 

<?php

  $name = $sex."<br />".$name;
  $content = "";
  
  if (isset($_POST['c1'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c1'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c2'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c2'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c3'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c3'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c4'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c4'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c5'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c5'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c6'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c6'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c7'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c7'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c8'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c8'])."<br />";}
  if (isset($_POST['c9'])) {$content .= check_input($_POST['c9'])."<br />";}
  
  $string = "<div>".$name."<br />".$adress."<br />".$_POST['phone']."<br />".$email_from."</div>";
  $string .= "<br /><p /><table width='100%' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr><th valign='top' width='25%'>Ihr Wunschtermin</th><th valign='top' width='25%'>Alternative</th><th width='25%' valign='top'>Trainingsart</th><th valign='top'>Inhalte</th></tr>";
  $string .= "<tr><td colspan='4'><hr></td></tr>";
  $string .= "<tr align='center'><td valign='top'>".$date1."</td><td valign='top'>".$date2."</td><td valign='top'>".$training."</td><td valign='top'>".$content."</td></tr>";
  $string .= "<tr><td colspan='4'><hr></td></tr>";
  $string .= "<tr><td colspan='4' align='left'><b>Anmerkung:</b> ".$comments."</td></tr>";
  $string .= "</table>";


  $email_content = $name . "\n" . $adress . "\n" . $_POST['phone'] . "\n" . $email_from . "\n\n\nWunschtermin: " . $date1 . "\nAlternative: " . $date2 . "\n\n" . $training . "\n" . $content . "\n\n\nAnmerkung: " . $comments;
  
                        ////// HERE WE GOO :

  // create email headers
  $headers = 'From: ' . $email_from . "\n".
  'Reply-To: '.$email_from ."\n" .
  'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
  $result = mail($email_to, "Terminanfrage ".$date1, $email_content, $headers);
  
  var_dump($result);
  
  echo "<H4> Ihre Anfrage wurde abgesendet und wird in Kürze bearbeitet.</h4><p />Sollten Sie Fragen oder Anregungen haben, <a href='contact.html'>schreiben Sie uns!</a> Sie erhalten in den nächsten Tagen eine Bestätigung, oder im Falle einer Absage den Grund und einen neuen Terminvorschlag.<p />Ihre Angaben im Überblick:<p />";
  echo $string;
  echo "<div style='height:150'></div>";
?>

[Pikachu2000]

At the risk of asking an obvious question, do you have a mail server installed and running?

[pokernarr]

yes, as i said exactly the same code is working at the same server on another .php-page.

 

I am fairly new to PHP and scripting in general (actually i only used AutoIT efficiently so far) that i don't know where to search for to get this fixed. The help file on mail() gave no information. 

 

$header  and  $email_to  are both fine.    the $subject param should be ($date1 is a string like '19.06.1999'  ).  $email_content used to be html-code, but i formatted it into a string just to see if something happens. Nothing happened.

[xyph]

I don't know of any documented behavior of PHP doing this.

 

Unless there's some sort of htaccess restriction or CRAZY outside configuration, there's no way a built in function should work on one page, and not the other.

 

I don't think it's possible to get this behavior on two files in the same directory.

[Pikachu2000]

yes, as i said exactly the same code is working at the same server on another .php-page.

 

You said nothing of it being on the same server.