php mail

[bamboohead]

Hi,

I have not gotten my php mail to work. I have checked the spam folder and I have tried snippets of code found in this forum. I have also tried sending to yahoo and gmail. Does anybody know what else could be wrong?

I'm using the free hosting. When I checked the return value of mail command, it returns true.:dunno:

 

[garrettroyce]

you should probably post your code in the programming help forum for better help.

I know there have been some issues with the mail() function, I thought they have been cleared up though.

 

[bamboohead]

I have tried below. Modifying only $contactemail .

<?php
  $contactemail = "some_one@exa.com";

  $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
  $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
  $headers .= 'From: You(som@yahoo.com)' . "\n";
  $headers .= 'Reply-To: you@cossacks.com' . "\n";
  $headers .= 'Return-Path:'.$contactemail . "\n";
  $headers .= 'X-Sender: '.$contactemail. "\n";
  $headers .= 'X-Mailers: PHP /'.phpversion() . "\n";

  $subject = "whatever subject";

  $message  = '
  whatever message
   ';


  ini_set(sendmail_from,$contactemail);

  if (@mail('You <'.$contactemail.'>',stripslashes($subject),stripslashes($messa
ge),stripslashes($headers)))
  {
    echo ('<h1>Sent</h1><p>This email has been successfully sent to ' . $contact
email . '.</p>');
  }
  else
  {
    echo ('<h1>Sorry!</h1><p>Your message has failed to send to ' . $contactemai
l . '. Please try again later.</p>');
  }


  ini_restore( sendmail_from );

?>

 

[garrettroyce]

you have to use \r\n instead of \n

see if that helps

 

[bamboohead]

Thank you.

I wonder how the other folks got it to work when their code didn't have the carriage return character.

 

[garrettroyce]

no idea. \r\n is a standard for sending mail, not just a recommendation