Mail() Not Working

I'm quite new to PHP.
I've just built my first PHP form handler that will save the form data to a text file on my server and then email me an alert, but the Mail() function isn't sending me the email.
I have set it to send to my gmail account but I don't receive it in my inbox or spam.

How can I make it email me properly?

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Originally Posted by shirazamod

I'm quite new to PHP.
I've just built my first PHP form handler that will save the form data to a text file on my server and then email me an alert, but the Mail() function isn't sending me the email.
I have set it to send to my gmail account but I don't receive it in my inbox or spam.

How can I make it email me properly?

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Can you post the code you are using?

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

What server software are you using IIS, Apache, other? It could be that your SMTP server ins't set up correctly.

OK, I've found that the problem is with my hosting company not allowing me to send email to other email addresses (eg: Gmail)

Thanks for all the help,
Shiraz

Hi!

I am trying to configure PHPMailer on my site to be able to submit a form with an attachement by email. I am using SMTP, I get none error but I don't receive any email...

Code:

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<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new phpmailer();

$mail->From    = "[email protected]";
$mail->FromName = "List manager";
$mail->Host    = "localhost";    // I THINK I MIGHT BE HERE.....
$mail->Mailer  = "smtp";

// HTML body
$body  = "Hello <font size=\"4\">FULL_NAME</font>, <p>";
$body .= "<i>Your</i> personal photograph to this message.<p>";
$body .= "Sincerely, <br>";
$body .= "phpmailer List manager";

// Plain text body (for mail clients that cannot read HTML)
$text_body  = "Hello FULL_NAME, \n\n";
$text_body .= "Your personal photograph to this message.\n\n";
$text_body .= "Sincerely, \n";
$text_body .= "phpmailer List manager";

$mail->Body    = $body;
$mail->AltBody = $text_body;
$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "FULL_NAME"); // obviously, this is a dummy email only for this post...
//$mail->AddStringAttachment($row["photo"], "YourPhoto.jpg");

if(!$mail->Send())
    echo "There has been a mail error sending to " . $row["email"] . "<br>";

// Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop
$mail->ClearAddresses();
$mail->ClearAttachments();

?>

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Have you setup your SMTP server to allow for PHP to relay message though it?

hmm... I didnt not do anything else than coding a php file and uploading it to the server...

So I guess I have to set it up? How can I do this??