I have been looking at this for hours now, and I can't figure out why this won't work. I'm trying to send an email using the mail function. For some reason this page works when hosted by iPage, but not by Godaddy. What is the reason for this?
The PHP:
<?php
// Run code if button pressed
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Makes sure all fields are filled
if (!$_POST['name'] | !$_POST['email'] | !$_POST['message'] ) {
?><script>alert('You forgot to fill in a field');window.location = "http://example.com/contact.php";</script>
<?php
exit;
}
// From the form
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$message = htmlentities($_POST['message']);
$to = 'email#gmail.com';
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
$body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// send the email
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
?><script>alert('Thanks! I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.');window.location = "http://example.com/contact.php";</script><?php
}
?>
You need to look at your if condition you need || to do a OR
<?php
// Run code if button pressed
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Makes sure all fields are filled
if (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['message']) ) {
?>
<script>alert('You forgot to fill in a field');
window.location = "http://example.com/contact.php";
</script>
<?php
exit;
}
You are setting From email id $email from user Input, that means its not configured at your server, add a Reply-To header to $email
$headers = "From: youremail#yourdomain.com \r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$email. "\r\n" .
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
Final note, I would suggest you to use Swift Mailer or PHP Mailer to make it simple
For people having trouble sending email on GoDaddy's servers, here's whats going on:
To prevent spam, GoDaddy's servers refuse to send your mail if your using a certain domain (see below for the list). So to solve the specific problem here, I had to change the domain I was using, so $to = 'email#gmail'; is now $to = 'email#something-else.com';
Here is GoDaddy's explanation and the list of blacklisted domains:
Forms are popular on websites; they let customers share their information with you, whether it’s for a newsletter or to register an account. Often times, these forms email a confirmation of the visitor’s submission to to you or the visitor submitting the information. Did you know that all email, even if it’s sent from a hosting account, must have information entered in the From value, though?
You can make that From value a particular email address, too. This lets you create a professional-looking email for your customers or something that’s easy to categorize for yourself.
However, we have to be careful with what users can specify as their From value to combat spamming attempts. Here’s a list of email address domain names we don’t let our customers use as the From value of their forms:
gmail.com
aol.com
aim.com
yahoo.com
hotmail.com
live.com
msn.com
If your email form uses one of these domain names for its From email address, our server will not send the email.
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I have a contact form on my website which sends an email to my account and an auto-response to the users who fills the form. I could able to send an auto-reply to non-Gmail accounts but not to Gmail accounts, it's not even sent to spam. I want to know is anything missing in the code, or any settings have to be changed, let me know
code is working fine with non-Gmail accounts
<?php
$email_to = 'mailme#example.com'; //your email
$business = 'company name.,'; //business name
//$topic = $_POST['topic'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_from = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$autoResponse = true; //set to false if you don't want to send an auto reply
$autoResponseSubject = "Demo Contact Form";
$autoResponseMessage = "Hi, thank you for contacting us, we will get back to you soon.";
$autoResponseHeaders = "From: $business <$email_to>\r\n";
$autoResponseHeaders .= "Reply-To: $business <$email_to>\r\n";
$headers = "From: $name <$email_from>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $name <$email_from>\r\n";
if(#mail($email_to,$subject, $message, $headers)){
if($autoResponse === true){
mail($email_from, $autoResponseSubject, $autoResponseMessage, $autoResponseHeaders);
}
echo '1';
} else {
echo '0';
}
?>
I am not getting any errors.
Google, Microsoft, and the like, only accept email from mail servers that fulfill a number of requirements. These requirements are changing over time. This has mainly to do with preventing spam.
Things start with SPF, which is rather simple, but the normal site providing documentation has been down since feb 2019. Have a look at Wikipedia instead.
The next thing is DKIM. Without it mail certainly won't been accepted by GMail.
Then there is also DMARC.
After all of this there is still no guarantee that your mail will be accepted. Your IP could be blacklisted.
As you can probably guess by now, running your own mail server is a lot of work. I've stopped doing it years ago. I now use a third party service for this.
I'm having an issue with a contact form. The email message is correctly sent but in my inbox appears as "From: anonymous#web.godns.net" and not "From: web#mywebsite.com", and goes directly to SPAM.
I've been looking for similar issues but no one gives the specific answer. I guess if the code is having a syntax mistake or it's a server problem.
This is the PHP file:
<?php
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['phone']) || empty($_POST['message']) || !filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
http_response_code(500);
exit();
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
// Create the email and send the message
$to = "myemail#gmail.com";
$subject = "Mensaje Web de >> $name";
$body = "Recibiste mensaje a través del formulario en la web.\n"."Estos son los datos:\n\nNombre y Apellido: $name\n\nEmail: $email\n\nTeléfono: $phone\n\nTexto del mensaje:\n$message";
$headers= "From: web#mywebsite.com" . "\r\n" .
"Reply-To: $email \r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if(!mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))
http_response_code(500);
?>
Does anyone figure out what's wrong here?
Thank you,
Alejandra | aleare.design
It may solve your problem or not but it's always a good idea to set a proper sender address. In good old mail() that needs to be done with the $additional_parameters parameter and the syntax is -f followed by an email address with no display name:
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, '-fweb#mywebsite.com')
Additionally, make sure that your local SMTP server allows sending messages in the name of web#mywebsite.com. If it doesn't, perhaps you need to get another server and make use of authentication, something that mail() doesn't allow.
In any case, it's really hard to get email right with this function since you need to do everything by yourself and email protocol is not trivial. For instance, I think your code is vulnerable to email headers injection. It's easier to just use a third-party library like Swift Mailer or PHPMailer.
P.S. What are you trying to accomplish with strip_tags(htmlspecialchars())? This will just make user input unreadable for not obvious gain.
This might help you, I don't get it why you put so many text in the header
// Create the email and send the message
$to = "youremail#yourdomain.com"; // Add your email address inbetween the " " replacing username#yourdomain.com - This is where the form will send a message to.
$subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$header = "From: noreply#adamar.com\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply#yourdomain.com.
$header .= "Reply-To: $email"; // this is to automatically reply to your correspondent email rather than your noreply email, I separate it from your header.
also mind to change the variable $headers to $header? Maybe it might help. Wish all the best of it. Cheers!
I've adapted a simple contact form using php which works fine. However I now need to add an auto response email, so when the client has entered details into the form it not only sends me the details, but sends the client a html email response.
Can any of you kind clever people point me in the right direction on how to achieve this as I'm stuck. Below is the code I'm using; am I right in thinking I need to use another "if" statement to send auto reply?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
<?php
if(empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['phone']) ||
empty($_POST['message']) ||
!filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email_address = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
$to = 'andy#andydry.com';
$email_subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact
form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail:
$email_address\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: noreply#yourdomain.com\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;
?>
Send another email, but to the client, when the first email is sent successfully. That is assuming you're sending the client an email with different content than you're sending yourself when they use the contact form. Otherwise, use BCC.
Also, use a mail library such as Swiftmailer.
First off, a caveat: the php mail() function is prone to header-injection abuse, which can be used to force your mail server to spam emails on spammers behalf. Strictly filter incoming email addresses
As far as your question, you seem to be wanting to add a CC to your email of the customer's email address.
That is done through adding to the headers:
$headers .= "CC: ".$customer_email_address_sanitized_and_escaped."\r\n";
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Ive been trying this out the whole day but I cant figure out how to send an email from my html contact form containing the information from the form to my email address. Im new to php.
Ive tried running this by uploading it to free web hosting. I get the message "success!" when I press the submit button on my html form but no email is actually sent.
Any help is appreciated.
PHP script:
<?php
//Subject
$subject ="Contact Form Submission";
// Name
$name =$_POST['InputName'];
// Message
$message =$_POST['InputMessage'];
//Mail of Sender
$email =$_POST['InputEmail'];
//From
$header = "From:$name<$email>";
$send_contact=mail("myemail#gmail.com",$subject,$message,$header);
//Check if mail was sent
if($send_contact){
echo "Success!";
}
else {
echo "Error!";
}
?>
EDIT: Figured it out after one whole day of trial and error. The problem was with the free web host I was using. Changed hosts and the code started working fine. Hope this helps someone in the future. Thanks all for the help.
I have a pretty good idea why your code is not working. It happened to me a long time ago. The reason why your code is not working is because :
When you pass "from" in headers, php expects an existing email account of your
server. For example : $headers = 'From: emailacc#yourserver.com';
So first thing you gotta do is create an email account on your server. And then put the From in header to the email address that you've just created.
The From field in the $headers is not the From as you think.
<?php
$email = $_POST["InputEmail"];
$subject = $_POST["InputSubject"];
$message = "From: ".$email.", ".$_POST["InputMessage"]; // you put the email address from the input form here
$headers = 'From: emailacc#yourserver.com'; // here is the email address specified from which u want to send the email.(i.e. your server email address)
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)
?>
I'm sure this will do the job :)
Have a shot at this.
I changed you're $header variable around a little bit, so that rather than setting the email as "$email", It'll actually pass through the posted email entered in the form. This apply's to the name too.
I also made it so that you pass the mail function through the parameters of the if statement, rather than setting a new variable.
$headers = "From: " . $name . "<" . $email . ">"; // notice new concatenation
if(mail("myemail#gmail.com", "Contact Form Submission", $message, $headers)){
// success message
} else {
// error message
}
Really hope this helps! :)
Try adding spaces after the "=" that might be the problem,
If that doesn't work you could try to use this
<?php
$emailvariable = $_POST['InputEmail']
$to = 'example#gmail.com';
$subject = "Form"
$message = $_POST['InputMessage'];
$headers = "From: $emailvariable";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Hope this helps
I need my contact form on my website to be adjusted. It's a PHP/Ajax Contact Form.
Currently i have a problem - When a client fills out my contact form NAME - EMAIL - SUBJECT - MESSAGE there is an issue with my DREAMHOST Server due to their new anti spam policy and i dont receive some messages - If their email is #hotmail.com that's fine. But if their email is #gmail.com i dont get the message etc.
DREAMHOST TELLS ME:
Thanks for contacting Tech Support I checked the logs for the form on your site and did see that the emails are being bounced by the server due to recently implemented anti spam policies which won't allow email sent from the server using non-Dreamhost outgoing servers or "send from" email addresses. You can read more details on this policy here:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Sender_Domain_Policy_and_Spoofing
Your mail form uses the visitor's email address as the 'From' address which in most cases is not a Dreamhost hosted email address. Due to the spam policy above, the server will block mail being sent off the server if the email addresses are not using Dreamhost mail servers. So what you will need to do is either set the mail form to use your Dreamhost hosted address as the 'From' address.
Or you will need to find another mail form that will allow you to set a fixed email address as the 'From' address. This way you can set a Dreamhost hosted email address in the form as the 'From' address.
THE CODE AS FOLLOWS:
<?php
/*
Credits: Bit Repository
URL: http://www.bitrepository.com/
*/
include dirname(dirname(__FILE__)).'/config.php';
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
$post = (!empty($_POST)) ? true : false;
if($post)
{
include 'functions.php';
$name = stripslashes($_POST['name']);
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
$subject = stripslashes($_POST['subject']);
$message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);
$error = '';
// Check name
if(!$name)
{
$error .= 'Please enter your name.<br />';
}
// Check email
if(!$email)
{
$error .= 'Please enter an e-mail address.<br />';
}
if($email && !ValidateEmail($email))
{
$error .= 'Please enter a valid e-mail address.<br />';
}
// Check message (length)
if(!$message || strlen($message) < 15)
{
$error .= "Please enter your message. It should have at least 15 characters.<br />";
}
if(!$error)
{
$mail = mail(WEBMASTER_EMAIL, $subject, $message,
"From: ".$name." <".$email.">\r\n"
."Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n"
."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
if($mail)
{
echo 'OK';
}
}
else
{
echo '<div class="notification_error">'.$error.'</div>';
}
}
?>
All i need to know is what i need to do to the code so i can receive all submissions of my contact form. I would really be grateful if someone could help.
Replace the following:
mail = mail(WEBMASTER_EMAIL, $subject, $message,
"From: ".$name." <".$email.">\r\n"
."Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n"
with just:
$mail = mail(WEBMASTER_EMAIL, $subject, $message,"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
and add the user's email address to your message if you need to. What you are doing right now is called spoofing and even when well-intentioned, you are essentially committing fraud. It would be the equivalent of someone calling you to show interest in your product and you taking down their physical address and putting that in the upper-left corner of an envelope and then sending yourself a letter saying that the caller is interested. In addition to this just being a fairly-odd way of doing things, it also suggests an electronic paper trail that suggests the user actually emailed you, which they did not. I personally would be uncomfortable finding out my email address was used in this way after filling out an online form.