simple mail command

[freshfreelovinit]

Hi

 

I was having a problem with a free subscription not working on my website so I tried to narrow down the problem and ended up with these two lines of php code:

 

mail("xyz@yahoo.com.au", "testing", "testing www.escapesmoking.com", "$headers");

mail("xyz@yahoo.com.au", "testing", "testing", "$headers");

 

I do not receive mail from the first mail command but I do receive mail from the second mail command. My webhost says it is my problem to fix but i don't see how I can fix it. It seems that mail I send out which contains my website address does not get through. Does anyone have any advice they can give me?

 

Thanks

Alessandra

 

[magic2goodil]

did you check your junk mail?

 

Sometimes mail servers like hotmail, yahoo, etc.. read mail as spam if it has a web address in the subject line like that.  Try adding the subject line in the headers as well and play around with it.  I have a mail code that gets through to any mail server and past spam but it took some work and playing around.

[Ninjakreborn]

Try this

 

mail("xyz@yahoo.com.au", "testing", "testing www.escapesmoking.com", $headers);

mail("xyz@yahoo.com.au", "testing", "testing", $headers);

and make sure the headers variable has something in it.

[freshfreelovinit]

Hi

 

The web address is in the body of the mail, not the subject, and it is not going to my bulk mail. The headers do contain information and all the information is syntactically correct.

 

Alessandra

[Ninjakreborn]

Then it's something definitely related to your webhost.

 

Try

if (mail(stuffhere)) {

echo "Mail sent";

}else {

echo "Mail not sent.

}

[freshfreelovinit]

Hi

 

Thanks for the suggestion of obtaining the return status of the mail command which did actually return a success status when I ran it. I have passed this information on to the webhost.

 

Alessandra

[Archadian]

make sure your ISP does NOT have port 25 blocked (SMTP)