Mail won't send!

[Sharif]

Ok on register.php, after registration is successfully completed, I send out an email to the user...

language.php:

<?php
// $email_domain = 'mysite.com';
// $site_title = 'title';

$regEmail['from'] = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$regEmail['from'] .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$regEmail['from'] .= "From: " . $email_domain;
$regEmail['subject'] = 'Activate your account for ' . $site_title;
$regEmail['message'] = '<p>This email is to notify you that your registration was successfully completed.</p>' .
                        '<p>Please use the link below (copy and paste into your browser) to activate your account.</p>' .
						'<p>' . $activation_link . '</p>' . 
?>

register.php:

<?php
include('language.php');

//... A whole bunch of code between the include and the foreach() here...
	foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) 
	{ 
		$_POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars(addslashes(trim($value)));
	}
$email = $_POST['email'];
//$activation_link = '...link generated by code that isn't posted...';
mail($email, $regEmail['subject'], $regEmail['message'], $regEmail['from']);
?>

But the mail won't send.. meaning I never get the email...

[Hafkas]

do you get any script errors?

[Sharif]

That's another weird thing: no errors at all.. code seems perfect but for some reason it won't mail me.

[LordShryku]

Do you ever terminate the message with a ;?

$regEmail['message'] = '<p>This email is to notify you that your registration was successfully completed.</p>' .
'<p>Please use the link below (copy and paste into your browser) to activate your account.</p>' .
'<p>' . $activation_link . '</p>' .
?>

[Sharif]

Sorry I forgot to put the ; when I copied and pasted for the post...even with that it won't mail.

[Hafkas]

perhaps it has something to do with the way the "from" variable is put together. Try sending a test message by using the mail function manually like so:

mail("[e-mail]", "test", "this is a test message", "[e-mail]");

if that works you can start working backwards from that point, substituting each element with one of your variables.

[Sharif]

Do you think it isn't working because the variables are in single and not double quotes?

[Sharif]

I also tried this by removing the special characters (\r\n) but still no luck...

[Sharif]

Guys I just moved to whole DIFFERENT server and it still won't work. The php.ini info is at:

http://sharif.hostblue.net/~ewdllc/phpinfo.php

[shifty18]

I know this diear wont get you anywhere with this problem but how about you change what e-mail script you are using. I done something like this with an e-mail with it and i know i used a PHP script but it wanst this one. How about you find another e-mail script. The one i used worked fine, if you want i can send you it.

Hope this helps, Chris

E-Mail [e-mail]

[Sharif]

That would be great. Please send it to sharif at nyc dot rr dot com

[Sharif]

I think I found the problem:

I changed:

$regEmail['from'] .= "From: " . $email_domain;

To:

$regEmail['from'] .= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";

That works, but why does this not work:

$regEmail['from'] .= "From: " . $email_domain . "\r\n";