Not recieving the confirmation email

[Lone_Ranger]

I followed a tutorial and the registration form works great, all the data goes into the database and everything registers fine but there is one problem the verification email whilst it says has been sent never arrives to the email account. Why is this? I use my hosting off Godaddy

<?php

 include('config.php');

 if ($_POST['name'] == "" || $_POST['username'] == "" || $_POST['password'] == "") {

include('top.php');
echo "<p align=center><font size=2>Hey MCFLY! You left some field's blank so you haven't registered! <a href=http://www.sentuamessage.com/register.php>Click Here</a> to retry.</font></p>";
include('bottom.php');
}
else
{
$namecheck = mysql_query("select * from userdb where name='$_POST[name]'");
			if(@mysql_numrows($namecheck) > 0)
			{
include('top.php');
				echo "<font size=2><p align=center>font color=red>Error:</font></b>: That name is already taken</p> <p>Please try your <a href=http://www.sentuamessage.com/register.php>registry again</a></font>.";
include('bottom.php');
}
else
{
$emailcheck = mysql_query("select * from userdb where username='$_POST[username]'");
			if(@mysql_numrows($emailcheck) > 0)
			{
include('top.php');
				echo "<font size=2><p align=center>font color=red>Error:</font></b>: That email address is already taken</p> <p>Please try your <a href=http://www.sentuamessage.com/register.php>registry again</a></font>.";
include('bottom.php');
}
else
{

 $tbl_name=temporaryuserdb; 
 $confirm_code=md5(uniqid(rand())); 

 $name=$_POST['name'];
 $username=$_POST['username'];
 $password = md5($_POST['password']);
 $country=$_POST['location'];
 $gender=$_POST['gender'];

 $sql="INSERT INTO $tbl_name(confirm_code, name, username, password, country, gender)VALUES('$confirm_code', '$name', '$username', '$password', '$country', '$gender')";
 $result=mysql_query($sql);

 if($result){

// ---------------- SEND MAIL FORM ----------------

 $to=$username;
 $subject="SentUAMessage - Verify Account";
 $header="from: SentUAMessage <[email protected]>";

 $message="<div align=center>
	<table border=1 width=30% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 bordercolor=#000000>
		<tr>
			<td>
			<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
				<tr>
					<td bgcolor=#008000 height=5></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><img src=http://www.sentuamessage.com/emailheader.jpg></img></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td bgcolor=#008000 height=5></td>
				</tr>
			</table>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</div>
<div align=center>
	<table border=0 width=51% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
		<tr>
			<td> </td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>
			<table border=1 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 bordercolor=#000000>
				<tr>
					<td>
					<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
						<tr>
							<td><img src=http://www.sentuamessage.com/emailheadertop.jpg></img></td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td>
							<h3 align=center><b>Your Confirmation Link</b></h3>
							<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
								<tr>
									<td width=6> </td>
									<td><p>Click on this link to activate your 
									account:</p>";
$message.="http://www.sentuamessage.com/regconfirmation.php?passkey=$confirm_code";

$message="</td>
									<td width=6> </td>
								</tr>
							</table>
							</td>
						</tr>
					</table>
					</td>
				</tr>
			</table>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</div>";

 $sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

}

 else {
 include("top.php");
 echo "<font size=2><p align=center>Not found your email in our database</p></font>";
 include("botton.php");
 }

 if($sentmail){
 include("top.php");
 echo "<font size=2><p align=center>Your Confirmation link Has Been Sent To Your Email Address.</p></font>";
 include("bottom.php");
 }
 else {
 include("top.php");
 echo "<font size=2><p align=center>Cannot send Confirmation link to your e-mail address</p></font>";
 include("bottom.php");
 }
}

 }
}
?>

[adam_bray]

Have you checked spam/junk folders?

[dalecosp]

Mail delivery isn't guaranteed. Have you tried sending it to several different receiving addresses on different servers/services? Spammers have made "guaranteeing" mail-delivery much harder than it used to be....

[Lone_Ranger]

guess I can try more and wait longer to see if it is something that is just delayed.

[dalecosp]

Make sure you have a Reply-To; that might help you get the "I couldn't send this" responses from the system(s).

[tqla]

With godaddy I believe the "from" email has to actually exist.

[Lone_Ranger]

my FROM address does exist to be fair

[Lone_Ranger]

got it working, basically the second one $message tag I messed up it should have been $message "html"; $message. "html"; $message."html"; not $message "html"; $message."html"; $message "html";

[tqla]

Are you replacing [email protected] with a real email address?

[Lone_Ranger]

the Customerservice email address is a real email address

[tqla]

so your issue was concatenation. glad you got it working.

[Lone_Ranger]

yea only thing im looking at now is how to get the HTML to show as a layout instead of script when the email is sent

[dalecosp]

You must set the proper MIME type and format the message with a "unique" separator field to get HTML email.

[Lone_Ranger]

so if I did

 

 

$header.="MIME-VERSION: 1.02

$header.="content-type= text/html; charset=UTF-8";

 

should resolve it

[Lone_Ranger]

guys thank you. It's working