Sending email using Zend Framework and PHP - php

Question

I working on a form whereby when the user enter in their email account and click on send, an email will be sent to their email account.
I have everything worked out. Just that it doesnt send the email to my account. Anyone have any ideas? Is there a configuration that I left out or something?
This is the sample from my controller:
public function retrieveemailAction(){
$users = new Users();
$email = $_POST['email'];
$view = Zend_Registry::get('view');
if($users->checkEmail($_POST['email'])) {
// The Subject
$subject = "Email Test";
// The message
$message = "this is a test";
// Send email
// Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.
// Use if command to display email message status
if(mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
$view->operation = 'true';
}
} else {
$view->operation = 'false';
}
$view->render('retrieve.tpl');
}

Answer 1

I recommend you use Zend_Mail instead of mail(). It handles a lot of stuff automatically and just works great.
Do you have a SMTP server? Trying to send mail without your own SMTP server could be causing the mail to not be sent.
This is what I use for sending mails using Zend_Mail and Gmail:
In Bootstrap.php, I configure a default mail transport:
protected function _initMail()
{
try {
$config = array(
'auth' => 'login',
'username' => 'username#gmail.com',
'password' => 'password',
'ssl' => 'tls',
'port' => 587
);
$mailTransport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('smtp.gmail.com', $config);
Zend_Mail::setDefaultTransport($mailTransport);
} catch (Zend_Exception $e){
//Do something with exception
}
}
Then to send an email I use the following code:
//Prepare email
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->addTo($email);
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$mail->setBody($message);
$mail->setFrom('username#gmail.com', 'User Name');
//Send it!
$sent = true;
try {
$mail->send();
} catch (Exception $e){
$sent = false;
}
//Do stuff (display error message, log it, redirect user, etc)
if($sent){
//Mail was sent successfully.
} else {
//Mail failed to send.
}

Answer 2

First of all i would switch to using Zend_Mail. Second i would use a real mail account on an smtp server somewhere and send from that. A lot of times there are restrictions on sending from the server itself, but using an actual mail server usually fixes this.

Answer 3

There's a very useful screencast covering Zend_Mail available on ZendCasts
http://www.zendcasts.com/introduction-to-zend_mail/2010/02/

Answer 4

In line $mail->setBody($message);, change it to $mail->setBodyText($message);