I'm trying to have entered email address delivered to my inbox so that when user enters his email in form, I get an email notification about it.
This is the php:
<?php
if($_POST){
$email = $_POST['email'];
//send email
mail("email#email.com", "Newsletter Signup:" .$email);
}
?>
What am I doing wrong since it's not working atm ?
What is the problem with this question
The reason why your mails won't be delivered can be really anything. Check the environments of your mailserver and your webserver.
Check your Email Account for spam filters
Maybe your internet provider is blocking the email because of unverified sender address
Firewalls problems
etc...
How to solve the problem
Since the mail() function implementation in php is returning a boolean, you can use this return value to detect an error:
<?php [...]
$email = $_POST['email'];
$success = mail("email#email.com", "Newsletter Signup:", $email);
if (!$success) {
$error = error_get_last();
var_export($error);
}
[...] ?>
Maybe this will help you to locate the problem.
Related
I have written a email send php code and uploaded onto server. It is working and email is being send to the inbox. But when i uploaded the same code onto another server, it is not working, mail is not being send but the message "your message has been send successfully" is being displayed. why is it like that ? Can anyone tell ?
There are a lot of shared webhosting providers who have disabled PHP's mail() function.
WHat you could do is switch to, for example: PHPMailer
Without seeing you code i'ts not possible to tell you why it isn't working.
You say your getting the message "your message has been send successfully" but that isn't the response from the send() command - that should be a boolean - so check that your code is reading that correctly and reporiting the correct result.
If the send() is returning true then it means your message has left the server but doesn't mean it's arrived at it's destination. Most likely the recipients server is blocking your new server for some reason.
My suggestion is to use an external SMTP server to send the mail through so it's consistent across where ever your app is hosted. Amazon SES is very good, cheap and allows you to easily monitor bounces too.
This is my code for phpgmailer. This is showing the above error.
<?php
$name = $_POST['fname'];
$telephone = $_POST['phone'];
$mobile = $_POST['mobile'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$msg = $_POST['message'];
require_once("phpgmailer/class.phpgmailer.php");
$mail=new PHPGMailer();
$mail->Username="cd4xltech";
$mail->Password="dfddfdfddf";
$mail->From="cd4xltech#gmail.com";
$mail->FromName=$name;
$mail->Subject="Feedback:".$subject;
$mail->AddAddress("annan#gmail.com");
$mail->Body=$message."From: $name";
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Error".$mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Mail Sent";
}
?>
My email form is working but will not send an email when the user uses a aol.com and yahoo.com email address. What do I need to change?
PHP file is hosted by godaddy.
I'm a designer, and PHP is not my forte, can you explain an answer with changes to my existing code (if the change is with the code at all.) This problem is very frustrating.
// Only process POST reqeusts.
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
// Get the form fields and remove whitespace.
$name = strip_tags(trim($_POST["name"]));
$name = str_replace(array("\r","\n"),array(" "," "),$name);
$email = filter_var(trim($_POST["email"]), FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$message = trim($_POST["message"]);
// Check that data was sent to the mailer.
if ( empty($name) OR empty($message) OR !filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
// Set a 400 (bad request) response code and exit.
// http_response_code(400);
echo "Oops! There was a problem with your submission. Please complete the form and try again.";
exit;
}
// Set the recipient email address.
// FIXME: Update this to your desired email address.
$recipient = "mysite#mysite.com";
// Set the email subject.
$subject = "New contact from $name";
// Build the email content.
$email_content = "Name: $name\n";
$email_content .= "Email: $email\n\n";
$email_content .= "Message:\n$message\n";
// Build the email headers.
$email_headers = "From: $name <$email>";
// Send the email.
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $email_content, $email_headers)) {
//Set a 200 (okay) response code.
// http_response_code(200);
echo "Thank You! Your message has been sent.";
} else {
// Set a 500 (internal server error) response code.
// http_response_code(500);
echo "Oops! Something went wrong and we couldn't send your message.";
}
} else {
// Not a POST request, set a 403 (forbidden) response code.
// http_response_code(403);
echo "There was a problem with your submission, please try again.";
}
The only thing that I can think of is that goDaddy has blocked these domains for sending emails, since mail() uses the servers settings
I also don't see any error in your simple code. Some things to consider:
Your new lines in the body and header should use CRLF \r\n, rather simply \n
You may also use additional parameters and setting your email as 5th parameter with the -f command (trusted user for the sending program).
Example:
// Send the email.
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $email_content, $email_headers,"-f".$email)) {
Since you're a designer, i also suggest to use tools like PHPMailer, that eases the e-mailing process and fixes some stuff for you.
Well that's because you're not supposed to be sending mail on behalf of email addresses you don't control through mail servers that are not authorized to do so. This is a rule about email that most people seem to ignore, but both Yahoo and AOL have both recently changed their policies to block the exact thing you are trying to do.
http://blog.mailchimp.com/aol-changes-dmarc-policy/
I would expect that this will become a thing that more and more mail providers do as time goes on.
What you should be doing is using an email address that you own to send out the mail, either through that domains outbound server or one authorized by the domain, and not trying to spoof someone else's address. In addition to not appearing to be shady as all get-out, you'll be far less likely to run afoul of DMARC and SPF policies, spam filters, and angry email admins perusing StackOverflow.
I tore out my hair over this issue for weeks. Finally figured it out today. If your form has an email field and it's named "email", and the user types an #aol or #yahoo email address, Formmail will act like nothing's wrong, but the form will not be sent.
It's an easy fix. Just use something else (anything else but "email") for the email field name, like "FromEmail".. Easy peasy.
If the user types something like dingbat#aol.com or doofus#yahoo.com:
This won't work:
<input type="text" name="email" size="30" maxlength="100" />
but this will:
<input type="text" name="FromEmail" size="30" maxlength="100" />
Good luck!
Chaz
i am new to php and web development. i am trying to confirm user,s email on signup by sending confirmation message on their email. But it is not working is the problem with my using localhost as a server or there is some other problem? here is my code
{
$to = $_POST['email'];
$com_code = md5(uniqid(rand()));
$subject = "Confirmation from OnlineShopping to $_POST['username']";
$header = "OnlineShopping: Confirmation from OnlineShopping";
$message = "Please click the link below to verify and activate your account. rn";
$message .= "http://www.yourname.com/confirm.php?passkey=$com_code";
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
if($sentmail)
{
echo "Your Confirmation link Has Been Sent To Your Email Address.";
}
else
{
echo "Cannot send Confirmation link to your e-mail address";
}
}
my if($sentmail) condition is coming true and i am getting message that your confirmation link has been sent to your email address but i am not receiving any email in my inbox
Nowadays, ISPs usually block any smtp activity, you need a proper mail server. Easiest is to use the gmail smtp server to send mail, just to get you going.
There are plenty of ways to do that, just search "gmail smtp php" and you'll get a bunch of articles.
You need a host to send email with php. I recomend you to use .tk For a free domain and hostinger for free hosting. So you can use this function and test your stuff.
But you can also try changing the php.ini file. http://www.php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php
I'm trying to email new registered users for email verification (PHP) but i don't get it, why would an email be sent to SPAM, i already checked out similar questions and all answers are about Headers,
It seems a bit complicated for me to get known to those headers and how are they being verified,
By sender website ? lets say i sent as user#google.com and the actual server domain is domain.com, how would it know? and is it one of the main reasons why it goes to spam ?
I am using VPS, does it has anything to do with it ?
I'm just trying to understand the clear/simple reasons of why would an email be checked as spam
and what if i sent from the server IP and not the domain itself
Most of the mail servers will do Reverse DNS lookup to prevent people from domain.com pretending to be from otherdomain.com. It will check if the IP address from which the email was sent resolves to the same domain name of the email sender. Yahoo and other big companies will also use DKIM to verify you.
Often your message can end up in Bulk/Spam if it doesn't have much content, or if you sent a lot of the same content to one server.
Here's a good article about what web developers should know about sending email that might help you understand the subject.
1) Check headers. You could use any email sending library such as PHPMailer (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/wiki/PHPMailer#Documentation_and_Resources)
2) Check hosting server. If your is using shared hosting then most probably it has been blacklisted by the email domain.
Configure an email address on your domain, replace me#mydomain.com with your newly created email address on your domain andid#hotmailOrgmail.com with your Hotmail/Gmail id in the following script.
Also replace Your Name with your name in the following script and test it on your server:
<?php
$myName = "Your Name";
$myEmailAddressonDomain = "me#mydomain.com";
$myPreferredEmailAddresson = "id#hotmailOrgmail.com";
$mail = $_POST['email_field'];
$clientName = $_POST['name_field'];
$subject = $_POST['subject_field'];
$text = $_POST['message_field'];
$headers = 'From: "$name" <$yourEmailAddressonDomain>'.PHP_EOL.'Reply-To: '.$_POST['mail'].PHP_EOL;
$to = '"$yourname" <$myPreferredEmailAddresson>';
$message = $text.PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL."---".PHP_EOL."From: ".$name." <".$mail.">";
/* Server-side form validations */
$err = "Error with ";
if (!checkLen($name)) {
$err.='Name';
} else if (!checkLen($mail) && !checkEmail($mail)) {
$err.='Email';
} else if (!checkLen($subject)) {
$err.='Subject';
} else if (!checkLen($text)) {
$err.='Message';
}
if (strlen($err)>11) {
echo $err.' field';
exit;
}
/* end validations */
elseif (mail($to, $subject,$message, $headers)) {
echo "<span style='color: #336600'>Your message has been sent.</span>";
} else {
echo "An error occurred, please try again.";
}
function checkLen($str,$len=1)
{
return isset($str) && mb_strlen(strip_tags($str),"utf-8") > $len;
}
function checkEmail($str)
{
return preg_match("/^[\.A-z0-9_\-\+]+[#][A-z0-9_\-]+([.][A-z0-9_\-]+)+[A-z]{1,4}$/", $str);
}
?>
The email will land on your Hotmail/Gmail inbox (or any non-spam) folder via your domain's email address.
Note: Clicking Reply in the received email would show you the client's email address (as we have set in Reply-To header above)
Make appropriate changes and you are good to go.
as you are operating VPS, you may consider setting up DKIM and SPF on your server, they are used by mail services like Gmail to classify your server as a legitimate server.
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i've got a php function which sends emails fine but I want it to use the smtp server i have specified in the ini.set function.
if i delete these 3 lines of code the email still sends fine.
the reason i want to use the smtp server is because sometimes this does not work to certain mail hosts.
connect();
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM members WHERE username = '$_POST[username]'")
or die ("Error - Something went wrong.");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$useremail = $row['email'];
$name = "name";
$mail_from = "noreply#name.com";
$mail_to = "$useremail";
$mail_body = "Hello. Thank you for registering. Please click the link below to confirm your email address. ";
$mail_subject = "Confirm you registration".$name;
$mail_header = "From: ".$name." <".$mail_from.">\r\n";
ini_set ("SMTP", "ssl://serveraddress");
ini_set("smtp_port","465");
ini_set("sendmail_from","noreply#name.com");
$sendmail = mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_body, $mail_header);
if($sendmail == true) { mail("john#name.com", "email sent ok", "email sent to '$_POST[email]'", "yea sent ok");}
Else { mail("john#name.com", "email ERROR", "email not sent to '$_POST[email]'", "yea we got a problem");}
}
If you are serious about sending mass mailing in your web application, i'd look at the SwiftMailer library, its free and relatively easy to setup and you can set your own SMTP transporter live.
Else than that, i have had issues with sending mail to hotmail and yahoo before where the email just doesn't get there when you use the "mail()" function. Keep in mind that the web email clients are very picky about headers, structure and security and may refuse emails not written by real clients easily.
If you want to test out something like that, just use a local-address#your-domain email, this will usually not filter it out. Now if the mail doesn't get there, you know it's something else.