sending email

[fizzwizz]

This is my first email code:-

$email = "[e-mail]";
$mail_subject = "Test";
$mail_body = "This is a test";

mail($email,$mail_subject,$mail_body);

I don't receive this test email ([e-mail]) any ideas why?

[Anon]

Your missing the From field. It should be like this:

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

The easiest and best way is to look at the examples provided by php.net.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Bill

Fizzwizz wrote:

This is my first email code:-

$email = "[e-mail]";
$mail_subject = "Test";
$mail_body = "This is a test";

mail($email,$mail_subject,$mail_body);

I don't receive this test email ([e-mail]) any ideas why?

[fizzwizz]

the from field is optional!

[khaine]

The fourth field is actually the headers field. It does contain the from header. It does say in the manual that it is optional but some things are less optional than other. I have not managed to make mail work without the fourth field.

try setting you email up like.

/ recipients /
$recipient .= "Mary <[e-mail]>" . ", " ; //note the comma
$recipient .= "Kelly <[e-mail]>" . ", ";
$recipient .= "[e-mail]";

/ subject /
$subject = "Birthday Reminders for August";

/ message /
$message .= "The following email includes a formatted ASCII table\n";
$message .= "Day \t\tMonth \t\tYear\n";
$message .= "3rd \t\tAug \t\t1970\n";
$message .= "17rd\t\tAug \t\t1973\n";

/ you can add a stock signature /
$message .= "--\r\n"; //Signature delimiter
$message .= "Birthday reminder copylefted by public domain";

/ additional header pieces for errors, From cc's, bcc's, etc /

$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder <[e-mail]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: <[e-mail]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n"; // mailer
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n"; // Urgent message!
$headers .= "Return-Path: <[e-mail]>\n"; // Return path for errors

/ If you want to send html mail, uncomment the following line /
// $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; // Mime type

$headers .= "cc:[e-mail]\n"; // CC to
$headers .= "bcc:[e-mail], [e-mail]\n"; // BCCs to

/ and now mail it /
mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers);

straight out of the manual but it does work.

Mark.

[fizzwizz]

I've been informed by my isp that they disable the mail() command as a default to prevent malicious mailing. They are re-activating it for me now. However thanks for the mail help I will find it useful and will use headers in my mail code.
Many thanks again!