Re: Mail Function Problem

Alice Wei wrote:

Hi, I have an issue here where I see no PHP errors on my mail function usage, and yet I am not getting the mail in the desired account. Here is what I have for my PHP code: $headers = "From: ajwei@alumni.iu.edu"; $to = "ajwei@alumni.iu.edu "; $subject = "Comments Regarding My Studio"; $body = "From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact: $question\n Comments:\n $comments"; mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers);

I don't see any way for you to know if there are any errors. Try this as a very basic start: $headers = "From: ajwei@alumni.iu.edu"; $to = "ajwei@alumni.iu.edu "; $subject = "Comments Regarding My Studio"; $body = "From: $your_name\n E-Mail: $email\n Reason Contact: $question\n Comments:\n $comments"; $success=mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers); if ($success) { echo "Mail was sent successfully!"; } else { echo "Sending of mail failed!"; }

This is what I have in my PHP.ini: [mail function] ; For Win32 only. SMTP = smtp.live.com smtp_port = 587 ; For Win32 only. sendmail_from = ajwei@alumni.iu.edu ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). ;sendmail_path = ; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters ; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of ; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode. ;mail.force_extra_parameters = Yet, I don't see any mail in my ajwei@alumni.iu.edu Mailbox, can anyone on the list please give me some pointers on what I may have done wrong here? Thanks for your help.

Thanks to the worldwide brotherhood of crooks known as spammers, sending e-mail these days isn't nearly as easy as PHP makes it look. You might wanna look into an "errors-to" header to help debug any problems with sender authorization, bad ports, etc. HTH, KDK