[Resolved] Forgot Password page, partially working?

[Gibb_Boy]

Howdy all,

I have a typical Forgot Password page. It generates a new random password, updates the database, then emails the password.

I've tried this script on my work email, my website email, and my gmail accounts. The only one that ever receives the email is the gmail one. My work email has a spam filter, but the IT guy says that he's not seeing any of the emails. My website email has no filters at all.

I read a similar post in this forum but no solution was found. Does anybody know what could possibly be causing this?

Here is the line that calls the mail() function:

if (mail ($email, 'Subject line', $body, 'From: [email][e-mail][/email]') ) {
    echo 'MAIL SENT SUCCESSFULLY<br />';
}

The SUCCESS echo statement is always displayed, and i have other echo statements to display the email address and such before i call mail() which all show valid data.

[TheDefender]

What happens if you hard code the email addresses and change to a double-quote instead of single?

if (mail ("[e-mail]", "Subject line", $body, "From: [e-mail]") ) { 
    echo "MAIL SENT SUCCESSFULLY<br />"; 
}

[Gibb_Boy]

thanks for the reply

I tried that and it had the same results. Only my gmail account would receive the email.

My gmail account shorter in length (16 chars) where my other two emails are 23 and 31 chars in length, so i thought it could be something related to length (i'm really out of ideas). I sent a test email to my brother's gmail account which is 23 chars as well, and it worked for that account as well.

[Gibb_Boy]

It seems my problem was Server related. I uploaded the script to a friend's web server and it worked 100% perfectly. Man, what a waste of a week 🙁

[TheDefender]

Well, sometimes the server won't send out all of the necessary headers automatically, and you need to code them in. An example would be the Reply-To header.... Some mail servers reject mail without that header (as a means of blocking SPAM) and if you don't code it in, yourself, then it may be sent, but never received...

if (mail ("[e-mail]", "Subject line", $body, "From: [e-mail]\r\n", "Reply-To: [e-mail]\r\n") ) {  

    echo "MAIL SENT SUCCESSFULLY<br />";  

}

This may not be the solution, but gives you something else to look into.

[Gibb_Boy]

I received a reply from my host already and they stated that it was because my server's address did not resolve to a valid return address. They changed it and got it working for me already, yay!

Thanks for the replies!

[TheDefender]

Good to hear. Be sure to mark this thread resolved using the "Mark thread resolved" link at the bottom. And have a good day. 🙂