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Generate Email script

May 2nd, 2007

How can i make this script work?
It is meant to send an email to a person with a confirmation code, but it is not working. whats wrong with it?

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 <?php
 
 function send_mail($fromname,$frommail,$to,$subject,$body,$priority)
  {
    $fullmail = "\"$fromname\"<$frommail>";
    $headers  = "From: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Sender: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
    $headers .= "X-Priority: $priority\n";
    $headers .= "Return-path: $fullmail\n";
 
    mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
  }
 
 function send_html_mail($fromname,$frommail,$to,$subject,$body,$priority)
  {
    $fullmail = "\"$fromname\"<$frommail>";
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";
    $headers .= "From: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Sender: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
    $headers .= "X-Priority: $priority\n";
    $headers .= "Return-path: $fullmail\n";
 
    mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
  }
 
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 <?php

 function send_mail($fromname,$frommail,$to,$subject,$body,$priority)
  {
    $fullmail = "\"$fromname\"<$frommail>";
    $headers  = "From: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Sender: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
    $headers .= "X-Priority: $priority\n";
    $headers .= "Return-path: $fullmail\n";

    mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
  }

 function send_html_mail($fromname,$frommail,$to,$subject,$body,$priority)
  {
    $fullmail = "\"$fromname\"<$frommail>";
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";
    $headers .= "From: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Sender: $fullmail\n";
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
    $headers .= "X-Priority: $priority\n";
    $headers .= "Return-path: $fullmail\n";

    mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
  }

?>

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Re: Generate Email script

May 2nd, 2007

What kind of error are you getting? The odds are the problem lies somewhere else in the code.

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Re: Generate Email script

May 2nd, 2007

We can't debug unless we know what the problem is

The format for the output should be headers, then a single blank line, and then the message.

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Re: Generate Email script

May 2nd, 2007

Well, its just not sending the email at all!

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Re: Generate Email script

May 2nd, 2007

You'll need to echo out some variables in your script to make sure you have the right information there and to make sure you are getting there at all.

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Re: Generate Email script

May 3rd, 2007

What OS is your server on?

Windows requires an SMTP server.

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Re: Generate Email script

May 3rd, 2007

Its clustered linux servers i think

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Re: Generate Email script

May 3rd, 2007

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Originally Posted by tomf

Its clustered linux servers i think

Check first with your hosting company support and see if they have mail() set up properly. If they either you have a problem with your code or your mail may be blocked or added to spam.

You'll need to place some debugging into your code.

for starters:

[PHP]if (!mail(....)) {
echo 'Mail is not working... ';
}[/PHP]

mail() will return Boolean true or false if working or not respectively.

Set your error reporting to max:

[PHP]error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors', 'true'); // not sure bout this one, I think thats the correct config option[/PHP]

Just try a simple mail() first.. don't use the abstraction function "send_mail".. just to test if its working.

Check if your hosting company's mail servers are not blacklisted.
Send emails to a few different addresses to make sure its not specific to an email address...

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