Php Mail Function Isn't Working

[unemployment]

I'm in the process of trying to set up php generated emails. I have recently built my new server but I can't seem to get PHP to send emails. I tested the code out below but it responds with message delivery failed.

 

<?php
$to = "email@example.com";
$header = "From: {$to}";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}

?>

 

The odd thing is that I also tried:

 

if ( function_exists( 'mail' ) )
{
   echo 'mail() is available';
}
else
{
   echo 'mail() has been disabled';
}

 

and it returned that the mail() is available. What can I do to get this working? Is this a server configuration issue?

[darkfreaks]

i am guessing you have a MIME header problem.....

$header = ‘From: ‘.$to.PHP_EOL;
$header .='Reply-To: ‘.$to.'.PHP_EOL;
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$success = mail($to,$subject,$body,$header);

if($success) {
echo "Mail Sent!";
} else { echo "Mail Not Sent!"; }

[unemployment]

i am guessing you have a MIME header problem.....

$to = 'myemail@gmail.com';
$header = 'From: '.$to.PHP_EOL;
$header .='Reply-To: ‘.$to.'.PHP_EOL;
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$success = mail($to,$subject,$body,$header);

if($success) {
echo "Mail Sent!";
} else { echo "Mail Not Sent!"; }

 

Running this code returned mailed not sent! What do I do? What is the issue?

[Jessica]

You may have a problem with your mail server's configuration.

[Pikachu2000]

Something looks off about this line, no?

$header .='Reply-To: ‘.$to.'.PHP_EOL;

Edited October 13, 2012 by Pikachu2000

[PFMaBiSmAd]

When developing and debugging php code, you need to have php's error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON to get php to help you by reporting and displaying all the errors it detects.

 

For runtime errors in your main file, you can set the two setting in your code by adding the following -

 

ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(-1);

[unemployment]

You may have a problem with your mail server's configuration.

 

Apparently I needed postfix installed. Didn't know that!