This is my Code :
<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'dannyfeher69#gmail.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email';
//define the message to be sent.
$message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my mail.";
//define the headers we want passed.
$header = "From: me#localhost.com";
//send the email
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message);
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
-- it returns mail failed
Please help me
There are several reasons this could fail. The main obstacle to finding the cause is the use of the error control operator (#) in front of the call to the mail() function.
Other possible reasons are the lack of a valid From header. Although you define one in the $header variable, you don't pass it to the mail() function. It's also important that the From header is a valid email address on the domain you're sending the email from. If it isn't, most hosting companies will now reject the email as spam. You might also need to supply a fifth parameter to mail(), which normally consists of a string comprised of -f followed by a valid email address on the current domain.
Yet another possibility is that you are trying to send this from your own computer. The mail() function doesn't support SMTP authentication, so most mail servers will reject mail from sources they don't recognize.
And just to add to all your problems, newlines in emails must be a combination of carriage return followed by newline. In PHP, this is "\r\n", not "\n\n".
Assuming you're using a remote server to send the mail, the code should look something like this:
<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'dannyfeher69#gmail.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test email';
//define the message to be sent.
$message = "Hello World!\r\nThis is my mail.";
//define the headers we want passed.
$header = "From: me#localhost.com"; // must be a genuine address
//send the email
$mail_sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
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I am trying to send email from a web page hosted on a shared platform over at fasthosts. I cannot for the life of me get this to work, I had a much more extensive script which checked the validity of email etc, but now I've been reduced to using the basic example from fasthosts and it is still not working.
Please could someone take a look and let me now where I am going wrong...
<?php
// You only need to modify the following two lines of code to customise your form to mail script.
$email_to = "contact#mywebsite.co.uk"; // Specify the email address you want to send the mail to.
$email_subject = "Feedback from website"; // Set the subject of your email.
// This is the important ini_set command which sets the sendmail_from address, without this the email won't send.
ini_set("contact#mywebsite", $email_from);
// Get the details the user entered into the form
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
// Validate the email address entered by the user
if(!filter_var($email_from, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
// Invalid email address
die("The email address entered is invalid.");
}
// The code below creates the email headers, so the email appears to be from the email address filled out in the previous form.
// NOTE: The \r\n is the code to use a new line.
$headers = "From: " . $email_from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $email_from . "\r\n"; // (You can change the reply email address here if you want to.)
// Now we can construct the email body which will contain the name and message entered by the user
$message = "Name: ". $name . "\r\nEmail: " . $email . "\r\nMessage: " . $message ;
// Now we can send the mail we've constructed using the mail() function.
// NOTE: You must use the "-f" parameter on Fasthosts' system, without this the email won't send.
$sent = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $message, $headers, "-f" . $email_from);
// If the mail() function above successfully sent the mail, $sent will be true.
if($sent) {
$output = json_encode(array('type'=>'message', 'text' => 'Hi '.$name .' Thank you for contacting us.'));
die($output);
} else {
$output = json_encode(array('type'=>'error', 'text' => 'Could not send mail! Please check your PHP mail configuration.'));
die($output);
}
?>
I have some php here that works great. I want a mail to be sent to the user who submits a form and I also want a copy of that mail sent to myself but I don't want my email address to be made available to the user.
Here's the php I'm using to govern the mail sending ...
$to = 'xxxx#xxxx.com' . ', ';
$to .= $email;
$subject = 'xxxx';
$message = "Thank you for submitting the form.";
$headers = "From: xxxx#xxxx.com\r\nReply-To: xxxx#xxxx.com";
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
When the code is parsed emails are duly sent to both the users submitted email ($email) and the address I enter in the first $to variable however the user can see the email address I enter as another recipient when they receive the email. Anyone know how I can get around this? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
Use a BCC header instead of an additional To in your $headers string. It stands for "Blind Carbon Copy", and instructs the mail server to duplicate the mail to extra recipients, but remove that header from the original copy, so the main recipients can't know it was there.
I realize that this is similar to this question, however, I only get a double email when sending to myself. I have sent emails to others with the same script, and they get a single email. This is the email script:
<?php
function sendEmail( $recipient, $sub, $msg )
{
$to = $recipient;
$subject = $sub;
$message = $msg;
mail( $to, $subject, $message );
}
?>
The code calling this is this:
if( $retVal != FALSE ) // No errors in execution of report generation
{
$subject = "Successful Report";
$message = "The report was successfully generated.";
// Notify people about success
sendEmail( $mailto, $subject, $message );
echo "Successful report generation\n";
}
else // Error in report generation
{
$subject = "Unsuccessful Report";
$message = "The report failed to generate.";
// Notify people about failure
sendEmail( $mailto, $subject, $message );
echo "Report generation was unsuccessful\n";
}
where $retval is the return value of system(). Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Or is this something that can be overlooked?
Thanks very much
-rusty
Based on the conversation: You are the only recipient that is receiving double email, and the string "Successful report generation" only prints once. It sounds like PHP is not the culprit here, rather something outside of PHP, such as the MTA.
Take a look at the headers of the two email you receive, particularly the MessageID header. If they are identical, then a single email was sent from PHP (good!) and somewhere along the line it got delivered to you twice.
If they are not identical (messy), then PHP did in fact send out two emails (not likely) or there is a resender somewhere between PHP and your mail client.
In the later case, I would take a deeper look at the headers in your email, to determine the source and route of each email, as well as the envelope to determine where the MTA though it was sending mail to.
I would add the output from debug_backtrace() into the body of your email. This will allow you to determine when the sendEmail function is called and who called it.
$message = "";
$header = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8;\r\n";
mail($mailto, $subject, $message, $header);
I have successfully sent mail using PHP's mail() function before, and for my password reset notification e-mail, I copied the syntax I was using elsewhere, but I guess I messed it up, as it's not arriving at its destination. Here is the code I'm using:
$headers = 'To:'.$email."\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: webmaster#aromaclear.co.uk'."\r\n";
$to = $email."\r\n";
$subject = 'AromaClear Password Reset Notification'. "\r\n";
$msg = 'From: AromaClear'."\r\n";
$msg .='Subject: Your New Password'. "\r\n";
$msg .= 'Message: Your new password is '.$newpass."\r\n";
$msg.= 'If you have received this e-mail in error, please ignore it.'. "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
Any thoughts?
Try looking at your server's mail logs to see why it isn't getting forwarded. Ex., it may be that this server's sendmail wants the -f flag for the From header instead of specifying it in the header text.
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers, "-f $from");
Also, you seem to be doing a lot of extra/weird work. This is a lot easier:
$subject = "AromaClear Password Reset Notification";
$headers = "From: webmaster#aromaclear.co.uk";
$msg = "Your new password is $newpass\r\nIf you have received this e-mail in error, please ignore it.\r\n.";
if(mail($email, $subject, $msg, $headers))
{
//handle success
}
else
{
//handle failure
}
Change style to your preference.
have you checked the return value of mail(). If it's not FALSE then it's accepted for delivery and the code is fine, but something is messed up somewhere else.
That looks fine to me, perhaps do
if (mail($to_email,$subject,$message, $headers))
echo 'Success';
else
echo 'Error';
}
That might let you know if it's trying to send at all.
Just don't add "\r\n" everywhere, use it only to separate headers.
In the message you can use only \n, it will work.
And at the end of the subject and receiver there's no need for "\r\n".
I encounter a very strange problem with ixwebhosting.
I am able to send email using the php mail() function with $subject = "test";
But if $subject = "testing of information send"; then i won't be able to receive any email
But actually "Mail sent!" was displayed in the php page.
if (!mail($email, $subject, $body, $from)) { echo "Error Sending Email!"; }
else
{ echo "Mail sent!"; }
Is it possible that the email is being classed as spam somewhere down the track? Are you able to get logs from the mailserver indicating whether mail gets sent?