Php Mail() Not Sending Mail

[Guest xaav]

For future reference, does php mail() only work on Linux servers? Or is it just the way that this host has set up their Windows server?

 

 

 

 

PHP mail works on any platform, if you have it configured correctly. The problem (sadly) is not windows; the problem is that they have not configured the server correctly.

[jalpro]

Okay thanks! (:

[jalpro]

Is there a proper way to write the From and Reply-to headers for an email?

The email from my form is coming through as "postmaster@domain.com" rather than the email I used in the headers.

 

This is the code I was using before:

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-to: $email";

 

Then I Googled it and saw a post that said it had to be in the ' "Name" <email> ' format.

I changed my code to the following, ignoring Reply-to for the time being:

$headers = "From: \"".$contactname."\" <".$contactemail.">\n";

But that code didn't work either.

 

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Byron]

Like this and it's a good idea to send a content type header:

 

$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-to: $name2 <$email2>\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

[jalpro]

I put in those headers.

But for some reason, the email doesn't sent with headers.

It works fine if it's just:

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

[Byron]

I can't say what your problem is, but this email form works fine on our servers:

 

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/email_form.php

 

Text version:

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/email_form.txt

 

[Krydos]

Then I Googled it and saw a post that said it had to be in the ' "Name" <email> ' format.

I haven't actually looked this up to verify it, but I seem to remember something about crappy windows servers requiring "Name" <email@address.com> type format.