Mail Function

[poppy]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a php email form/list within a site. I've set everything up fine and it appears to work, but the email I sent never arrived. Someone mentioned something to me about a mail function, but I don't even know where to begin looking for that. Is it in my script somewhere?

poppy
😕

[mystrymaster]

depends on your script post the code

[poppy]

I'm sorry for my lack of knowledge...I feel ridiculous asking what I assume is an easy question - but which code? I have 10 php pages under the script I downloaded:

cfg.php (configure file?)
db.php (?)
email.php (this is where the admin would go to create an email)
email2.php (this is the page that comes up telling the admin that the email was sent and to whom)
foot.php (the footer)
head.php (the header)
index.php (the page users are sent to to subscribe or unsubscribe to the list)
install.php (the installation file)
subscribe.php (confirms subscription)
unsubscribe.php (confirms unsubscribe)

[kevinsequeira]

email.php and email2.php. actually what you need to do is look at these files and see if the function mail() is used somewhere in the code.
if you want to know what mail() does take a look at this link
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

reg
kevin

[poppy]

email.php:

<?
include("head.php");
include("cfg.php");
?>
<br><br>
<? echo "<table bgcolor='$tb_bgcolor' cellpadding='$padding' border='$border' cellspacing='$spacing' align='$align' width='$width' style='$style' bordercolor='$bordercolor'>"; ?>
<?php
if(!$pass)
{
?>
<form action="<? $PHP_SELF ?>" method="POST">
<tr>
<td width="35%"><b>Password:</b></td>
<td width="65%"><input type="password" name="psswrd" value="" maxlength="255"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="pass" value="Enter"></td>
</tr>
</form>
<?
}
else
{
if($psswrd != "$psswd")
{
echo "You do not have permission to view this page!";
exit;
}
?>
<form action="email2.php" method="POST">
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2" align="center"><textarea name="content" rows="15" cols="85"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="empswd432" value="Email"></td>
</tr>
</form>
<?
}
?>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?
include("foot.php");
?>

email2.php:
<?
include("head.php");
include("cfg.php");
include("db.php");
?>
<br><br>
<? echo "<table bgcolor='$tb_bgcolor' cellpadding='$padding' border='$border' cellspacing='$spacing' align='$align' width='$width' style='$style' bordercolor='$bordercolor'>"; ?>
<?php
if($empswd432 != "Email")
{
echo "You do not have permission to email the user group.";
exit;
}
$sql = "select * from newsletter";
$conn = db_connect();
$result = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
if(!$result)
{
echo "Error:<br>".mysql_error();
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$email = stripslashes($row["email"]);
$name = stripslashes($row["name"]);
$content = stripslashes($content);
$content = str_replace("<br>", "\n", $content);
$from = "From: $webmaster_email";
$to = "To: $name <$email>";
$subject = "$newsletter";
mail($to, $subject, $content, $from);
echo "<tr><td>Email to <i>$name</i> at <b>$email</b> sent!</td></tr>";
}
?>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?
include("foot.php");
?>

[kevinsequeira]

in email2.php this is the line that send the mail

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

try to do this

echo "to = ".$to;
ehco "<BR>subject = ".$subject;
ehco "<BR>content = ".$content;
ehco "<BR>from = ".$from."<BR>";
if(mail($to, $subject, $content, $from))
echo "mail sent";
else
echo "mail not sent";

reg
kevin

[poppy]

first off, thank you SOOOOOO much for helping me with this. I've been trying to figure it out for days and I feel like I'm going crazy!

I changed the email2.php script to this:
<?
include("head.php");
include("cfg.php");
include("db.php");
?>
<br><br>
<? echo "<table bgcolor='$tb_bgcolor' cellpadding='$padding' border='$border' cellspacing='$spacing' align='$align' width='$width' style='$style' bordercolor='$bordercolor'>"; ?>
<?php
if($empswd432 != "Email")
{
echo "You do not have permission to email the user group.";
exit;
}
$sql = "select * from newsletter";
$conn = db_connect();
$result = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
if(!$result)
{
echo "Error:<br>".mysql_error();
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$email = stripslashes($row["email"]);
$name = stripslashes($row["name"]);
$content = stripslashes($content);
$content = str_replace("<br>", "\n", $content);
$from = "From: $webmaster_email";
$to = "To: $name <$email>";
$subject = "$newsletter";
echo "to = ".$to;
ehco "<BR>subject = ".$subject;
ehco "<BR>content = ".$content;
ehco "<BR>from = ".$from."<BR>";
if(mail($to, $subject, $content, $from))
echo "mail sent";
else
echo "mail not sent";
echo "<tr><td>Email to <i>$name</i> at <b>$email</b> sent!</td></tr>";
}
?>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?
include("foot.php");
?>

Then I loaded it and tried to run it and I got this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /usr/www/users/thock/Mail/email2.php on line 30

[kevinsequeira]

what code is on line 30
reg
kevin

[poppy]

Ok, i noticed that echo was spelled wrong on line 30, so I corrected it and tried again. This is the message I got this time:

(these are all my testing emails and none of them were actually received)

to = To: ana
subject = Tornado E-News
content = This is a test of the email system. This is only a test.
from = From: Texas Tornado
mail not sent Email to ana at [e-mail] sent!
to = To: Testing2
subject = Tornado E-News
content = This is a test of the email system. This is only a test.
from = From: Texas Tornado
mail not sent Email to Testing2 at [e-mail] sent!
to = To: Testing3
subject = Tornado E-News
content = This is a test of the email system. This is only a test.
from = From: Texas Tornado
mail not sent Email to Testing3 at [e-mail] sent!