PHP email form does not send emails [duplicate] - php

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I have only dabbled in PHP a little, I am trying to remember what I did last year. I am having trouble getting this to work - the user is redirected to index.php but then nothing happens. No email is recieved and no verification 'email sent/not sent' etc.
I am sure it is probably a silly mistake.
Any help would be appreciated.
contact.html
<form method="post" action="index.php">
<label>Name</label>
<input name="name" placeholder="Type Here">
<label>Email</label>
<input name="email" type="email" placeholder="Type Here">
<label>Message</label>
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Type Here"></textarea>
<label>*What is 2+2? (Anti-spam)</label>
<input name="human" placeholder="Type Here">
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
index.php
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = $_POST['email']; // GET EMAIL ADDRESS FROM FORM
$to = 'annie.palmer#outlook.com';
$subject = 'Website enquiry from' .$name;
$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";
$headers = "From: Annie<$from>\r\nReturn-path: $from" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/text;charset=ISO-8859-1";
?>
<?php
if ($_POST['submit'] && ($_POST['human'] == '4') {
/* Anything that goes in here is only performed if the form is submitted */
if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $headers, $from)) {
echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>';
}
}
?>

Answer 1

I'm posting this as a community wiki; I don't feel any rep should come of this, nor do I want rep.
mail() uses 4 arguments, not 5.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
There is a 5th but it doesn't do what you're expecting your 5th to do.
So remove the , $from from this:
if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $headers, $from))
^^^^^^^
The From: belongs in the header and expects an email address.
Example from the manual:
<?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);
?>

Answer 2

Try using the PHPMailer. Once uploaded to your site sending an email is easy.
require ('../mail/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
require ('../mail/class.phpmailer.php');
//set up your email
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tbs'; //set as required
$mail->Host = "enter your email host here";
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = "enter your mail account username here";
$mail->Password = "enter your mail account password here";
$mail->From = "the from email address";
$mail->FromName = "the from name";
$mail->Subject = "the subject goes here";
$mail->IsHTML(true); //your choice
$body = "the body of you email - html or plain text";
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AddAddress("add the email address(es) of recipients");
$mail->Send();