Why mail() not sending email? - php

Question

Why the below code not sending mail to me? What is the error?
<?php
if(isset($_POST['name'])){
$msg="Name: ".$_POST['name']."\n Email: ".$_POST['email']."\n Address: ".$_POST['city']."\n Phone: ".$_POST['phone'];
mail('sganake#gmail.com', 'New Trial Request', $msg);
echo '<h2 align="center" style="color:green">Thank you for your message.</h2>';
} ?>
No error I got. Just I have not received my email at inbox. This is running on IIS Server.

Answer 1

Try this
$headers = 'From: from#address.com' . "\r\n";
$validate = mail('sganake#gmail.com', 'New Trial Request', $msg, $headers);
if($validate)
{
echo '<h2 align="center" style="color:green">Thank you for your message.</h2>';
}
else
{
echo '<h2 align="center" style="color:red">Something went wrong.</h2>';
}
If you get 'Something went wrong' it means problem is in your mail server and not in PHP code.

Answer 2

I suggest you to use PEAR::Mail package. You can send emails via SMTP then.
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "your#gmail.com";
$to = "sganake#gmail.com";
$subject = "New Trial Request";
$body = "Name $name, Address $address ...";
$host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$port = 465;
$username = "your#gmail.com";
$password = "password";
$headers = array(
'From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject
);
$smtp = Mail::factory(
'smtp',
array(
'host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password
)
);
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message has been sent!</p>");
}

Answer 3

You might have to send Mail Using SMTP Authenticationas which is required by many mail servers.
Check this link for further details.

Answer 4

May be your php configuration is not complete, see in C://xampp/php/php.ini in:
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
This is for activate email. May be your setting is:
;sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

Answer 5

Although I didnt change anything in your code. please try this
<?php
if(isset($_POST['name'])){
$to = 'sganake#gmail.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$msg='Name:'.$_POST{name}. "\r\n".
'Email: '.$_POST{email}. "\r\n".
'Address: '.$_POST{city}. "\r\n".
'Phone: '.$_POST{phone}. "\r\n";
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
var_dump($sent) // just to debug
echo '<h2 align="center" style="color:green">Thank you for your message.</h2>';
} ?>