PHP Send Mail

David Beach · Jun 20, 2014

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Dead-i · Jun 21, 2014

Hi,

What headers are you sending the emails with? (the fourth parameter)

Thank you,

sandy.beach · Jun 21, 2014

I have tried this script as well as a couple of others, i know a few weeks ago i had a mail script which i was experimenting with and i was curious if that flagging your system as an alert and because of that the mail system on my account had been disabled?

$to = 'sandy.beach.it@gmail.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: sandy.beach.it@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: sandy.beach.it@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

echo "mail sent";

sandy.beach · Jun 21, 2014

as well as this:

$to = 'sandy.beach.it@gmail.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$header = "From: noreply@example.com\r\n";
$header.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header.= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$header.= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

Dead-i · Jun 21, 2014

As far as I am aware, our mail system will only allow the "From" header to be an email address that is listed in your "Email Accounts" in cPanel (for security reasons). Could you please try doing this?

Thank you,

sandy.beach · Jun 21, 2014

Just to clarify the X10 email address i have is: david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx this is listed in my email accounts and is live.

I have amended the script to be the following:
http://sandybeachit.x10.mx/hosting/findibuzz/phpinfo.php
But unfortunately this has not worked and no emails are still coming through.

Is it possible to check my account please just to make sure there is nothing disabled / blocked etc?

Thanks

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$boundary=md5(uniqid(rand()));
$header .= "From:Name<david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx>\n";
$header .= "Reply-To:Name <david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx> \n";
$header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: multipart/alternative;boundary=$boundary\n";

$adres = "sandy.beach.it@gmail.com";

$subject = "subject";

$message = "This is multipart message using MIME\n";
$message .= "--" . $boundary . "\n";
$message .= "Content-type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit". "\n\n";
$message .= "Plain text version\n\n";
$message .="--" . $boundary . "\n";
$message .="Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit". "\n\n";
$message .="<html>
<body>
<center>
<b>HTML text version</b>
</center>
</body>
</html>\n\n";
$message .= "--" . $boundary . "--";

if(mail($adres, $subject, $message, $header))
{
print'message sent';
}
else
{
print'message was not sent';
}

descalzo · Jun 21, 2014

I believe that the header should end with a blank line.

David Beach · Jun 21, 2014

David Beach · Jun 21, 2014

sadsad

David Beach · Jun 21, 2014

descalzo said:
I believe that the header should end with a blank line.

Ok i can understand that but this was the original code i was using which was working but now does not work. There are no error messages generated and nothing had changed in the code.

$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$host_upper = strtoupper($host);

//send email
$to = "$email";
$subject = "Account Details Recovery";
$body = "Here are your new password details:\n
User Email: $email \n
Password: $password

Thank You

Administrator
$host_upper
______________________________________________________
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE
***DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL****

***MAIL WILL NOT BE RECEIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS***
";

$additionalheaders = "From: \"Member Registration\" <no-reply@$host>";
$additionalheaders .= "Reply-To: \"Member Registration\" <no-reply@$host>";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $additionalheaders);

sandy.beach · Jun 21, 2014

Ok just to be clear i stupidly didnt realise i had two accounts on this forum - hence the two avatars which are the same, i didnt even realise until now i was using a different account so i apologise if i have caused confusion and will only be using this one from now one which is what i should be using!

Thanks

All previous posts were from me - I am David Beach

sandy.beach · Jun 21, 2014

Carolyn Reede · Jun 22, 2014

Using mail() is hard to get right and I'm pretty sure the PHP devs don't intend for it to be called directly. I use a PHP email library called Ultimate Email Toolkit, but there are others like PHP Mailer, Swift Mailer, etc. I recommend using one of those. Some mail hosts do block the mail() function but PHP will emit an error.

As a side note, your code possibly has a security vulnerability in it: You aren't sanitizing inputs. For example, $_SERVER["HTTP_..."] vars are able to be spoofed by a client. A good email library will properly sanitize areas of potential user input for you.

sandy.beach · Jun 22, 2014

I do understand that,

Carolyn Reede said:
Using mail() is hard to get right and I'm pretty sure the PHP devs don't intend for it to be called directly. I use a PHP email library called Ultimate Email Toolkit, but there are others like PHP Mailer, Swift Mailer, etc. I recommend using one of those. Some mail hosts do block the mail() function but PHP will emit an error.

As a side note, your code possibly has a security vulnerability in it: You aren't sanitizing inputs. For example, $_SERVER["HTTP_..."] vars are able to be spoofed by a client. A good email library will properly sanitize areas of potential user input for you.

Thanks Carolyn i do understand this, but this is not what i am asking, i have scripts which were working perfectly fine and now they are not, when i have not made any changes to the code which indicates something has changed on the backend hence my query.

You do not need PHP Mailer etc to directly send an email, but they can be very useful and make things simpler, i just am doing things differently hence my query if anyting had changed on the backed

essellar · Jun 22, 2014

Does no-reply exist on your domain? You're not allowed to spoof the From header, and the address used must correspond to an email account that exists on your hosting account. (The idea is to prevent phishing.)

bdistler · Jun 22, 2014

sandy.beach said:
Just to clarify the X10 email address i have is: david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx this is listed in my email accounts and is live.

I made a copy of your code in post #6 (above) - and changed as shown below
My free-hosting account is on [ xo3 = (old Level) - IP: 198.91.81.3 ]
other members of my computer club tested this script on the other two (2) free-hosting servers
we had no issues with it - and I received the Emails from - all three (3) free-hosting servers - in my Gmail account

PHP:

<?php
// added this next line
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$boundary=md5(uniqid(rand()));

//$header .= "From:Name<david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx>\n";
//$header .= "Reply-To:Name <david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx> \n";
// replaced [ .= ] with [ = ] in this next line
$header = "From:Name<(Email address in my account)>\n";
$header .= "Reply-To:Name <(Email address in my account)> \n";

$header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: multipart/alternative;boundary=$boundary\n";

//$adres = "sandy.beach.it@gmail.com";
$adres = "(my Gmail address)";

$subject = "subject";

$message = "This is multipart message using MIME\n";
$message .= "--" . $boundary . "\n";
$message .= "Content-type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit". "\n\n";
$message .= "Plain text version\n\n";
$message .="--" . $boundary . "\n";
$message .="Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit". "\n\n";

$message .="<html>
<body>
<center>
<b>HTML text version</b>
</center>
</body>
</html>\n\n";
$message .= "--" . $boundary . "--";

if(mail($adres, $subject, $message, $header))
{
print'message sent';
}
else
{
print'message was not sent';
}
?>

sandy.beach · Jun 22, 2014

essellar said:
Does no-reply exist on your domain? You're not allowed to spoof the From header, and the address used must correspond to an email account that exists on your hosting account. (The idea is to prevent phishing.)

In my script i was not using a "no reply" email address.

I was using david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx as the from address.

As a side note i can email to "david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx" from my gmail account which comes through straight away but if i send an email from ths account (david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx) to my gmail account the email does not come through and yes i have waited about an hour for the email to appear in my gmail account and it is not in my inbox, spam folder or anywhere else yet i was able to receive emails (at david.beach@sandybeachit.x10.mx) very promptly.

So it looks like out going email on my account has been restricted, can someone take a look at the backend please and see what limitations have been put in place?

Thanks

sandy.beach · Jun 22, 2014

bdistler said:
I made a copy of your code in post #6 (above) - and changed as shown below
My free-hosting account is on [ xo3 = (old Level) - IP: 198.91.81.3 ]
other members of my computer club tested this script on the other two (2) free-hosting servers
we had no issues with it - and I received the Emails from - all three (3) free-hosting servers - in my Gmail account

Thanks for confirming this issue is not my code, i really appreciate the time you and your friends have taken in testing this, please pass on my thanks to them.

Bryon · Jun 23, 2014

Hi David, please test your mail script again and let us know the result. I believe that I've located the problem and that it is now corrected.

sandy.beach · Jun 23, 2014

Awesome i did some testing of a couple of scripts and it is all working now, thanks Bryon what was the cause ?

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