Form trouble, not getting emails...

trendMM

Hi I'm trying to run the following code on a clients server as a form for quotes and whatnot.....

<?
$today = date("M d, Y");
$recipient = "evan@trendmm.com";
$subject = "Email Form Test";
$N = $_REQUEST['name'];
$A = $_REQUEST['address'];
$C = $_REQUEST['city'];
$S = $_REQUEST['state'];
$Z = $_REQUEST['zip'];
$P = $_REQUEST['phone'];
$E = $_REQUEST['email'];
$CO = $_REQUEST['comments'];

$forminfo =
"Name: $N\n
Address: $A\n
City: $C\n
State: $S\n
Zip: $Z\n
Phone: $P\n
Email: $E\n
Comments: $CO\n
Form Submitted: $today\n\n";

// $formsend  =  mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $E\r\n", "Reply-to:$E\r\n");
mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $E\r\n", "Reply-to:$E\r\n");


?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Email Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
  <tr> 
    <td> <p align="left">Thank you. You have successfully submitted the following information:</p>
	<p><? echo nl2br($forminfo); ?></p>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

When using the form it prints out the information people have entered to the screen correctly but it just doesn't send it to my email. Does anyone know of what's wrong here?

I'd appreciate the help.

_ Evan

devinemke

read the [man]mail[/man] manual page concerning sending additional mail headers (there are examples there too).

also. is this code being run on a machine with a valid SMTP server? do a simple test:

$mail_sent = mail('trendmm@trendmm.com', 'test', 'test');
if ($mail_sent) {echo 'mail send OK';}
else {echo 'mail send FAIL';}

trendMM

Thanks. Well I tried your test and it said that the mail has been sent ok. But I never got it. From what I know this server has a working sendmail and smtp but nothing is coming through. Any ideas?

juliep

i had just that problem. my ISP uses php in safe mode, as many do... check out this info:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

mail() in safe mode restricts the 5th param.

you may want to try something like this:

$headers = "From: $E\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-to: $E\r\n";

mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", $headers);

trendMM

Well here's something wierd. I got about 30 emails from me testing it this morning. Like 15hrs after trying to setting it up. So it appears that it is working. Just very slowly. Hmmm.....