mail function is not working properly???

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gagan22 0 Junior Poster

15 Years Ago

Hi everyone,

I am using a mail function in my contactus form. But for some id it is sending infromation of contac us form but some time it is not sending like on my gmail id i am not getting mail.

what is the reason behind this. I have tried every efforts.

I am using this code for mail function :- mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper,"From: \"$fname\" <$email>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$fname\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.07" ); in this when $mailto='myid@gmail.com';
i am using this is not working means i am not getting mail form contact us page.

Please help me . How i can solve this .

thanks,
gagan

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diafol

15 Years Ago

Are you supplying a return e-mail registered to that domain? If not, some hosts block the mail, e.g. if your domain is www.example.com and your return address is me@jackspit.net, then the host may block it. They try to discourage spammers and jackers.

diafol

15 Years Ago

Have you tried commenting out your original code and replacing it with a hard-coded version?

$sendmail = mail('nobody@yoursite.com', 'hello', 'hello world this is a message', 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@mysite.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion());

does this work?

diafol

15 Years Ago

Like I mentioned in the first post, it's possible that your host has a block on mail() without a registered email to the hosted domain. Eg. I have a few accounts on Streamline.net and this is their policy:

Streamlinenet filters all outgoing e-mail. These must have a 'From' or 'To' address that is a domain hosted with Streamlinenet. Any e-mail not fulfilling these criteria is stopped.
If you are sending e-mail to a customer who has given you their e-mail address, you need to use the domain name of their site (but it does not need to be a valid mailbox, for example noreply@their-domain.co.uk is a fairly common one to use). If you want the customer to reply to the e-mail you must use a valid account.
Streamlinenet's SMTP Filter System limits the outgoing mail from a domain to prevent bulk e-mailing. The limits are set to allow normal form based e-mail activity to pass unhindered, but stop any persistent attempt to send bulk mail.

Check with your host if they have a similar policy.

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gagan22 0 Junior Poster · Answer 1 · 2009-05-15T11:30:30+00:00

hi,
Thanks for reply,

Sorry i am not understand about return email address about registered. So please explain me in brief. I have done every effort to solve this problem Still i am getting no mail from contact us form .

Please help me if there is any other mail function in PHP which i can use and which can solve my problem.
It is very urgent for me because my client is not getting mail and he is frustrating.

thanks

shefeekj -9 Light Poster · Answer 2 · 2009-05-15T12:52:40+00:00

try this code

<!–p
$subject = “Test mail”;
$message = “Hello! This is a simple email message.”;
$from = “someonelse@example.com”;
$headers = “From: $from”;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo “Mail Sent.”;?>

or check out

gagan22 0 Junior Poster · Answer 3 · 2009-05-15T14:31:11+00:00

hi,
I have tried this code . I am getting mail first time on my id after uploading this page . but after that when i fill contact us form 2nd time or 3rd time then mail is not coming on my id.

What can be the problem ??. I am not understanding. I am ubavke to find this problem. Please help me.
Thanks

gagan22 0 Junior Poster · Answer 4 · 2009-05-15T16:35:44+00:00

Hi everyone,

I am facing problem in mailer.php file. In this i am not getting mail from contact us form . Please help me . How i can solve this problem.

I am sending the code of mailer.php file . Please check this code. If you have any suggestions about changing this code. Then pls suggest me.
The code for mailer.php file is :

<?php

$thankyouurl = "http://www.mysite.com/ThankYou.html" ;
$to = 'myemail-id@gmail.com' ;
$subject = "Quick Contact Form";


 $name = $_POST['fname'] ;

$email = $_POST['email'] ;

$comments = $_POST['message'] ;

$cname = $_POST['cname'] ;

$add = $_POST['add'] ;

$telephone = $_POST['tnumber'] ;

$webadd = $_POST['webadd'] ;


$message =

 

        "This message was sent from:\n" .

        "$http_referrer\n" .

        "------------------------------------------------------------\n" .

        "Name of sender: $name\n" .

        "Email of sender: $email\n" .
		
        "Company Name  of sender: $cname\n" .
		
        "Address  of sender: $add\n" .
		
        "Telephone  Number of sender: $telephone\n" ;
		
		
		

       

 
 $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $headers . = "From: $email"."\r\n";
	
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );

?>

After submitting form it is going on thanks page but mail is not going on my email id .

What can be solution for this. Please help me.
Thanks,

kings -7 Junior Poster · Answer 5 · 2009-05-15T17:57:41+00:00

hi the below works for gmail also

<?
		$body.="<html><body><span>";

		$body.="<br /><bHi GOD BLESS U</b><br />";

		$body.="</span></body></html>";

		$from=";//mail id

		$replyto=$from;

		$to="";//mail id

		$toarr = explode(",",$to);

		$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

		$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

		if (strlen($body)>998) {

			$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64;" . "\r\n";

			$body=rtrim(chunk_split(base64_encode($body)));

		} 

		$headers .= 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n" .

			'Reply-To: ' . $replyto . "\r\n" .

			'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();		

		foreach($toarr as $key => $value){

			if (strlen($value) > 0) {

				if (mail($value, $sub, $body, $headers)) {

					$mailsentto .= "Mail sent to : ".$value."<br />";

				} else $mailsentto .= "Error when sending Mail to ".$value."<br />";

			}

		}

?>

gagan22 0 Junior Poster · Answer 6 · 2009-05-15T20:15:17+00:00

hi,

Thanks for reply,

I have used this code in my mailer.php file. But when i am printing value $mailsentto.

Then this is showing this output:

Error when sending Mail to myid@gmail.com

I do not know why this is going. Why mail is not going on mail id.

Please help me to solve this issue.
Thanks

gagan22 0 Junior Poster · Answer 7 · 2009-05-16T14:45:32+00:00

thanks for reply,

yes i have tried like as you give me code. but after mail is not going.

I have put this mail function in many website. But i am not getting where the problem is coming.

But it seeming this problem can be from server or hosting side. If yes, Please suggest me . What Problem can be from server or our hosting site. So I can tell them that where is the problem.

Thanks
gagan

gagan22 0 Junior Poster · Answer 8 · 2009-05-16T17:47:12+00:00

thanks for reply,

I will chat with my hosting site . I was also thinking that problem is not our side this problem is due to server or hosting site.

I will contact them soon. But it will take 3 to 4 days. After that i will contact on this post through my reply.

Ok sir thanks for giving so much help.

peter_budo 2,532 Code tags enforcer Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 9 · 2009-05-17T13:46:48+00:00

Off-topic for ardav - If you post by mistake, just click on "Flag Bad Post" and type reason like "Double post", "Post by mistake" and one of the moderators will take care of it