mail function not working

[mamaomphile]

<form action="forgotPsw.php" method="post">

Enter you Email Address: <input type="text" name="email">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">

</form>


With this code am trying to send an email using mail function, which is not doing that and with no errors displaying, 

so i cant really figure out what is the problem since its updating the database giving the write echo statements but the email is not going through? please assist me


<?php 

error_reporting(0);

$email=$_POST['email'];

if($_POST['submit']=='Send')

{

	require_once "my database";

	mysql_connect($svr, $dba, $pwd) or die(mysql_error);

	mysql_select_db($dbt);

	$query="select * from users where Email='$email'";

	$result=mysql_query($query) or die(error);


	// checks if the username is in use

		if(mysql_num_rows($result)){

			echo "User exist ----";

		}else{

			echo "No user exist with this email address----";

		}


		if(mysql_num_rows($result)){

			//$code=rand(100,999);

			//$message="You activation link is: http://10.10.200.250/cmsintranet/forgotPsw.php?email=$email&code=$code";

			//mail($email, "Activation link", $message);

			//send email

			$mail->Mailer = "smtp";  

			$mail->Host = "my host";  

			$mail->Port = 25;  

			$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication  

			$mail->Username = "i used an email address"; // SMTP username  

			$mail->Password = "psw to the email"; // SMTP password 


			//create a new random password

			$password = substr(md5(uniqid(rand(),1)),3,10);

			$pass = md5($password); //encrypted version for database entry



			$to = "$email";

			$subject = "Account Details Recovery";

			$body = "Hi $r->username, nn you or someone else have requested your account details. nn Here is your account information please keep this as you may need this at a later stage. nnYour username is $r->username nn your password is $password nn Your password has been reset please login and change your password to something more rememberable.nn Regards Site Admin";

			$additionalheaders = "From: <email.......>rn";

			mail($to, $subject, $body, $additionalheaders);


			//update database

			$sql = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET u_password='$pass' WHERE Email = '$email'")or die (mysql_error());

			$rsent = true;


			//show any errors

			if (!empty($error)){

				$i = 0;

				while ($i < count($error)){

					//echo "<div class="msg-error">".$error[$i]."</div>";

					$i ++;

				}

			}


			if ($rsent == true){

				echo "<p>You have been sent an email with your account details to $email</p>";

			} else {

				echo "<p>Please enter your e-mail address. You will receive a new password via e-mail.</p>";

			}

			//echo "Email sent";



		}else{

			echo "Email not sent";

		}

}

?>

 

Edited February 25, 2014 by mamaomphile

[jazzman1]

Why do you want to mix up a mail library such as phpmailer with a core sendmail?  

[mamaomphile]

Because i have been trying everything and still not winning when i decided to come up with the coding above, my simple code was:

 

 

<form action="forgotPsw.php" method="post">
Enter you Email Address: <input type="text" name="email">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
</form>

 

<?php
error_reporting(0);
$email=$_POST['email'];
if($_POST['submit']=='Send')
{
require_once "dba/dba.php";
mysql_connect($svr, $dba, $pwd) or die(mysql_error);
mysql_select_db($dbt);
$query="select * from usertest where user_email='$email'";
$result=mysql_query($query) or die(error);
  if(mysql_num_rows($result)){
   echo "User exist ----";
  }else{
   echo "No user exist with this email address----";
  }
 
  if(mysql_num_rows($result)){
   $code=rand(100,999);
   $message="You activation link is: http://10.10.200.250/cmsintranet/forgotPsw.php?email=$email&code=$code";
   mail($email, "Subject Goes Here", $message);
   echo "Email sent";
  }else{
   echo "Email not sent";
  }
 
}
?>

 

but still not working

[jazzman1]

What environment are you on, Unix or Windows?

[mamaomphile]

windows!

[EffakT]

Is this returning any errors?

are you running XAMPP?

[jazzman1]

Afaik from the windows users coming here and using a php mail function, the easiest way is to set up a remote connection between your local machine and some external mail server as gmail, yahoo, so on. Because to send or receive emails you need to have a mail server with mail account itself. By default the windows system ( when I used to actively it was about more than 13 years) didn't come with a copy of mail server software inbuilt itself, but time has been changed. The best way is to check docs of your windows version.

Edited February 26, 2014 by jazzman1