Emailing Signup

[supanoob]

Ok so i want to email and activation key and the account details to my members on signup but it doesnt seem to send to hotmail users ><

 

this is the code i have:

 

<?php

mail($email_address, 'Do Not Reply', "Thank You for registering an account at TORD. Below are your login details please keep them safe. 

Email: $email_address 
Password: $password
Activation Key: $randomString

Log in to activate your account using the above key.

Security Question: $secret_question
Security Question Answer: $secret_answer");

?>

 

any help to allow it to send to hotmail users would be greatly apprecited and credit will be given.

[Balmung-San]

Are you sure it's not being blocked by their spam filters? This seems to happen with automatically generated emails, and hotmail.

 

Also, it's best to specify a "From:" that doesn't seem generic. Most default configurations will send the email from something like "[email protected]" or "[email protected]", etc. These are common for mass emails, and hotmail most likely blocks emails that are sent from addresses like those.

[obsidian]

First of all, you ought to try and modify your email headers to represent a valid email address and from name. Usually, you can do something like this, and it helps some:

<?php
$to  = ''; // recipient's address
$sub = 'Subject'; // email subject
$msg = 'Message'; // email message
$hdr = "From: My Name <[email protected]>\r\nReply-To: [email protected]";

mail($to, $sub, $msg, $hdr);
?>

 

This alone will not always work, but it's a good start.

[supanoob]

that actually worked but none of my $password etc show it actually echoes $password

[alpine]

Its all about how you define your message string, look at this:

<?php

$password = "12345";

echo $password; // prints 12345

echo '$password'; // prints $password

echo "$password"; // prints 12345

?>