php mail not sending

**supercain** · 11-05-2012 04:12 AM

Hi,

i have a web host and im trying to send php mail with this script:

PHP Code:


<?php

mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');

$name=$_POST['name'];

$email=$_POST['email'];

$subject=$_POST['subject'];

$to  = $_POST['target'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

$from_name = mb_encode_mimeheader($name,'UTF-8');

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";

$headers .= "To: $name <$to>\r\n";

$headers .= "From: $from_name <$email>\r\n";

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

?>

<html>

 <head></head>

 <body>

  <FORM method="POST" action="mail.php">

 <TABLE class="reserve" cellpadding="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" align="left">

  <TBODY>

   <TR> 

    <TD width="100%" colspan="2">

     <H1>Email form</H1>

    </TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD align="left" valign="top" height="13px" width="20%">Name:</TD>

    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="name" size="20"></TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD>Email:</TD>

    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="email" size="20"></TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD>Target address:</TD>

    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="target" size="20"></TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD>Subject:</TD>

    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="subject" size="20"></TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD align="left" colspan="2">Message:</TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD align="left"></TD>

    <TD><TEXTAREA name="message" rows="4" cols="32"></TEXTAREA></TD>

   </TR>

   <TR>

    <TD style="text-align:center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="SUBMIT"></TD>  

   </TR>

  </TBODY>

 </TABLE>

</FORM>   

 </body>

</html>

But its not sending any mail. I guess its because of some server weird configuration. I have Linux CentOS. Could you please help me out?

Thank you.

**Mohammed Zayan** · 11-05-2012 04:38 AM

but this if statement

PHP Code:


<?php
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$to  = $_POST['target'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from_name = mb_encode_mimeheader($name,'UTF-8');
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$headers .= "To: $name <$to>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $from_name <$email>\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
?>
<html>
 <head></head>
 <body>
  <FORM method="POST" action="mail.php">
 <TABLE class="reserve" cellpadding="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" align="left">
  <TBODY>
   <TR> 
    <TD width="100%" colspan="2">
     <H1>Email form</H1>
    </TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" height="13px" width="20%">Name:</TD>
    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="name" size="20"></TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD>Email:</TD>
    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="email" size="20"></TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD>Target address:</TD>
    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="target" size="20"></TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD>Subject:</TD>
    <TD><INPUT type="text" name="subject" size="20"></TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD align="left" colspan="2">Message:</TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD align="left"></TD>
    <TD><TEXTAREA name="message" rows="4" cols="32"></TEXTAREA></TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
    <TD style="text-align:center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="SUBMIT"></TD>  
   </TR>
  </TBODY>
 </TABLE>
</FORM>   
 </body>
</html>

and give your submit property name=submit

**supercain** · 11-05-2012 06:48 AM

Thank you, but it still wont work. Im sure its a problem with the server configuration because the same script works on a different host i have.

Thank you.

**Rukbat** · 11-06-2012 05:26 PM

Contact your hosting company's tech support and ask if they give your site SMTP access. Not all hosts and/or all accounts do. If they don't, you'll have to ask them to enable it for you. If they don't, you'll have to change hosts.

**supercain** · 11-09-2012 01:29 AM

Thanks. So this script needs smtp server to go? i believe i do have, i think its just turned off or something.

**Rukbat** · 11-09-2012 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by supercain

Thanks. So this script needs smtp server to go?

Yes.

i believe i do have, i think its just turned off or something.

Contact your hosting company. (If it's your own server, your ISP may block emails not sent to their server. Most of them do now.)

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