[SOLVED] Please Reply----PHP mail() not sending email but doesn't return an error message

[philliphanatic]

I apologize in advance for my ingnorance, but until now I have barely used PHP, and never have been an admin, only a front end developer. I don't mind sarcastic replies as long as my issue is resolved.

 

I have done a google search, but there are thousands of hits on this subject nothing answers my question, and I have run out of time.

 

 

What steps do I need to take in order to send an email from a PHP application on a Linux server?

 

 

I was able to set up an email user via Plesk and successfully send and receive emails, so I know the mail system is working.

 

I used the following code, and got a return that Mail sent successfully.  I never received the email (I tried multiple email addresses...also tried different syntax of the mail function)

 

<?php 
if (mail('someone@domain.net','testing','testings')){ 
echo('<p>Mail sent successfully.</p>'); 
} else { 
echo('<p>Mail could not be sent.</p>'); 
} 
?>

 

SERVER INFORMATION

Dedicated Server Hosted at GoDaddy.com

PHP Version 5.2.4

OS - Linux 2.6.23.12-52.fc7

 

PHPINFO

safe_mode Off Off

sendmail_from no value no value

sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

 

I looked in the /usr/sbin directory and sendmail is there.

 

What do I need to do?  Is there anything else I need to check?

 

Thanks

 

[mmarif4u]

Did u check the junk or spam folders.

[philliphanatic]

I checked the folders but nothing.

[mmarif4u]

Try with headers like:

<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

sometime it need to that from where the mail is sent.so better to use the header for from.

[philliphanatic]

I had already tried that....I tried again, but with no success

[448191]

Does the domain the script runs on match the domain in the 'From' header?

 

Also, try a MIME mail. Download Zend_Mail and try this:

 

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.mail.html-mails.html

 

Don't use addText(), just addHTML().

 

Take a mail from your mail box and use that as a body. If that does go through, you can be sure that the original mail is assumed to be spam, and being filtered. Which is the most likely scenario.

[philliphanatic]

It worked.  Thank you so much!!!!!  I hadn't downloaded any software (i.e Zend) because I assumed that if a simple mail() didn't work, neither would any software that I downloaded.

 

Not that it matters anymore, but I still haven't seen any messages in the spam folder...but you think that was the problem?

 

Once again THANK YOU!!!!!!

[philliphanatic]

BTW...I forgot to put a steps that I took. This may not be the quickest or best way, but it worked for me.

 

1) Downloaded the zipped file which had the folder ZendFramework-1.0.3

2) I copied the ZendFramework-1.0.3/library/Zend into my httpdocs folder

3) Created a test file with the code at http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.mail.html-mails.html

4) Updated the setFrom() and addTo() with valid email addresses

5) Hit the page, and received an email

 

Thank you

[448191]

I hadn't downloaded any software (i.e Zend) because I assumed that if a simple mail() didn't work, neither would any software that I downloaded.

 

Thanks to spammers, sending email that doesn't get filtered is no longer a trivial task. If it doesn't look like a mail sent from an email client, it often 'vanishes' into thin air.

 

Libraries like Zend_Mail and Pear::Mail do a good job of sending MIME mails with the proper headers. Sure, you can write it yourself, but why should you (other than for the exercise itself)?

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