Mail() Not Working

[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?

[sciguyryan]

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?

Can you post the code you are using?

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[john tindell]

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

[shirazamod]

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

[jcavard]

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...

<?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();

?>

[john tindell]

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

[jcavard]

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??