email script

[garydt]

I've copied an email script from a page where it works to a second page. I'm not recieving test emails from the second page and i can't understand why.

$to = 'garydt@tiscali.co.uk';
echo $to;
//from you the sender.
$from = 'me';

$subject = "from epeople";

$mess = "password is $psw";

$message = $mess;

$headers = "From: $from\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
        "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
        "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

// send if correct.
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
echo $psw;
}

Thanks

[dewey_witt]

Gary there are a number of things that could be fouled in an email script. Here is a snippet i hope helps:

 

$msg = "Topic of e-mail goes here\nThe information is:\n\n";

$msg .= "First name: " . $_POST[FName] . "\n";

$msg .= "Lastname: " . $_POST[LName] . "\n";

$msg .= "Email: " . $_POST . "\n";

$msg .= "Organization: " . $_POST[Org] . "\n";

$msg .= "Address: " . $_POST[Addy] . "\n";

$msg .= "City: " . $_POST[City] . "\n";

$msg .= "State: " . $_POST[state] . "\n";

$msg .= "Zip: " . $_POST[Zip] . "\n";

$msg .= "Phone: " . $_POST[Phone] . "\n\n";

 

$to = "receipiant@somedomain.com";

$subject = "The subject of the e-mail goes here";

$headers = "From: sender@sendersdomain.com\n";

$headers .= "Reply-To: sender@senders domain.com\n\n";

 

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);

//sends the poster to a specified location after the script runs.

header( "Location: http://www.somelocation.com");

exit;

 

 

Also it depends on your hosting. If your hosting is windows most hosting providers run php in "safe mode" on windows... this doesnt allow for e-mail scripts in php. I recently had this problem with godaddy. Their tech support knew nothing I called 823765928365 times untill finaly someone had some info for me on the matter. WORD OF ADVICE: DO NOT HOST ON GODADDY WINDOWS HOSTING!!! Their linux servers are awsome tho

[Yesideez]

Try removing this line:

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

[garydt]

Thanks.

It still doesn't work, yet it works on other page. very frustrating.

[cooldude832]

so i take it the if statement is returning true?  if some you have a logical error in the mail.  Have you sent mail before from your server? a lot of times the issue is your end client is black listing a subdomain

[Hypnos]

Try just this to make sure the email settings on your server are correct.

 

$to = 'garydt@tiscali.co.uk';
mail($to, "Test email from PHP", "Test email from PHP");