mail problem

[tvalle]

Hi Guys. I'm horribly new to PHP and I'm having problems with emailing results of a form. Basically the form looks like it submits just fine, the "thanks" page comes up, etc. The only problem is that the actual email is never sent. Is there anything in this code that looks suspect? Again, sorry if this is a silly problem - I'm so very new. Here is the code:

<?

$msg = "$name\n$email\n\n$message";

mail("[e-mail]", "Contact Message", $msg, "From: $email" );

header ("Location: contact_thanks.php"); 

?>

[mhalloran]

Try it with these headers and some error checking;

$headers        = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers       .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers       .= "FROM:<".$email.">\r\n";
$headers       .= "X-mailer: PHP/ ".phpversion();

$msg = "$name\n$email\n\n$message"; 

$mail_sent = mail("[e-mail]", "Contact Message", $msg, $headers ); 

if ($mail_sent) {
    header ("Location: contact_thanks.php"); 
} else {
    echo "there was an error sending the email";
}

[winelight]

I have the same problem. Remove the header ("Location:...) and it works for me.

But then of course I do need the header () there.

Andrew Ward