Mail problem

[adam291086]

I have a mail script. The problem is the echo message ''Mail Failed'' is always echoed. The emails are still being sent. Any ideas

 

<?php


// db properties
$dbhost = '';
$dbuser = ''; 
$dbpass = '';
$dbname = '';
$conn = mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($dbname);

$conn;
$sql = "SELECT * FROM generalContact";

 $result = mysql_query("$sql");


while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
 {
$message = $row['Message'];
$email = $row['email'];
$subject = $row['subject'];
$name = $row['firstName'];
}
echo $email;
echo $subject;
echo $message;
echo $name;

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'To: '.$name.' <'.$email.'>,' . "\r\n"; //This is the TO name and Email
$headers .= 'From: Adam<adam@adamplowman.co.uk>' . "\r\n"; // This is YOUR name and email

if(mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "Mail has been sent";
}else{
echo "Mail Failed";
}

?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Add the following to the start of your code to see if there are any errors returned by the mail() function call -

 

ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

[adam291086]

tried that already and i get nothing

[revraz]

Does it ever echo success?

 

You could try doing something like

 

$success=mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

echo $success; //and see what outputs

[adam291086]

it does echo success.

if(mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)){

echo "Mail has been sent";

}else{

echo "Mail Failed";

}

[revraz]

So it echos success and failed at the same time, or just sometimes it says failed even though it worked?

[adam291086]

it always says fails. Then i get an email. I did amuse me when 20 email arrived as i kept changing things to correct it.

[revraz]

Wait, right above you said it echo's success...?

[Sulman]

Have you tried:

 

$result=mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
if($result)
{
echo "Mail has been sent";
}
else
{
echo "Mail Failed";
}

?

[adam291086]

yep i have just tried that and still get Failed echo

[Sulman]

Are you running this on windows?

 

Only this is mentioned on http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

Note: The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine).

Second, the custom headers like From:, Cc:, Bcc: and Date: are not interpreted by the MTA in the first place, but are parsed by PHP.

As such, the to parameter should not be an address in the form of "Something <someone@example.com>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA.