sending email via PHP

[lordbob]

I am trying to make a 'forgot password' tool on my website, basically the person fills out an HTML form which is then sent to a php file called forgot.PHP

(they send $Email to the PHP file via GET method)

this is my code for forgot.php:

[code]<?
//-------------------------------------------Connect to Database:
//set the variables as required
$dbhost = "fdb1.awardspace.com";
$dbuser = "rocketeermus_db1";
$dbpass = "******";
$dbname = "rocketeermus_db1";

//do not edit this, it connects the script
$members = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);//line10

mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

//------------------------------------------------------------------Send Mail Bit

$sql="SELECT Password, Username FROM Members WHERE Email='$Email'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);//line20

$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
if($count==1){

$rows=mysql_fetch_array($result);
// keep password in $your_password
$your_password=$rows['Password'];
$your_username=$rows['Username'];

$subject = "Password Request";//line30
$body = "Your password request has been processed!\n\nUsername: $your_username\nPassword: $your_password";

if (mail($Email, $subject, $body)) {
  echo"<p>Message successfully sent!</p>";
} else {
  echo"<p>Message delivery failed...</p>";
}
}
else
{
echo"<p>Your email address was not found on our database, you must register first!</p>";
}
?>[/code]

does anyone know why it isnt sending the email?
thanks ~

[Jessica]

$Email is never defined.

You really need to stop posting your database login info. This is the second time from you, and third or fourth today

[lordbob]

yer woops sorry about that  :P

[lordbob]

$email is sent from forgot.html (the form page)

[Jessica]

You should turn global variables off and do $email = $_GET['email'];
Is it email or Email? Caps matter.

Do you get the error message or just nothing?

[lordbob]

its $Email

how do i turn off global thingy?
and will that effect other php files on my website that send variables like that?

[lordbob]

there is no error message, it says "email sent" but i dont get it  :-\

[Jessica]

Did you check your junkmail? What email service are you using? Try other addresses on other servers.

[lordbob]

yeh im using hotmail, i checked junk...nothing there

[lordbob]

if it doesnt work for hotmail then im pretty screwed because all the people who are registering use hotmail  :-\

[Jessica]

You need to set some additional headers in order for hotmail to work I think. Checkout the mail() function in the manual.

[lordbob]

yer iv browsed google and everyone seems to be having this problem when sending to hotmail/gmail/yahoo etc.

[lordbob]

does anyone know a way around this problem?

at the moment the only stuff i have found is either wrong or i cant understand it!

HELP ME!!!!!  :-\

[Jessica]

HELP YOURSELF.

You need to use the additional headers as outlined here. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Specifically MIME type and these:
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
  'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
  'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

Read the documentation and TRY to understand.

[lordbob]

iv gone through all of that stuff, the mime stuff and the other extra headers, nothing works :(

[Jessica]

Well we can't help you then. If you want to post all the relevant files, someone might be willing to look through them, or you could post on the freelancers forum for more advanced help.

[anatak]

are your ini settings correct ?
this works for me (with my details)
[code]
$subject = 'title string';
$body = 'email string you want to send';
$email = '[email protected]';//working mailbox from your domain
$header = "From: $email";


ini_set("SMTP", "ASK YOUR PROVIDER"); //use for online version
ini_set("smtp_port", "25");
mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);
[/code]