mail() acting weird???

[Aliz__]

so I have just a basic mail() script.
sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. If I have it setup to go to my email then it works fine. but when i change it to someone else's email it won't work.
Its weird because some emails it works every time and other emails it won't work at all and the person doesn't receive anything. . .

Any idea why???

here is basically the script, just nice and simple. . .

<?
mail($emailAddr, $subject, $message, "From: $EMail\r\n"); 
?>

[planetsim]

Ok, is it giving an error or is the Email just not being sent?

If this is the case your Email could been seen as Spam, take a look here http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php you may need to create your own headers to make this not seem as spam, however there is the case that hotmail type providers see PHP Email as Spam.

[Aliz__]

thanks I will look at that.
But no there is no errors, Everything seems to be working but no emails are being received.

[Aliz__]

I added these 2 headers to it and it is still doing the same thing. Are there maybe different headers I might need to add???

<?
$headers  = "To: $emailAddr\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $EMail\r\n";
?>

I noticed some examples of people adding these 2 headers also

<?
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \n" ;
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \n";
?>

could one of those help me maybe? what does the MIME header do?

[rehfeld]

the default mime type is text/plain for emails. you only need to specify a mime type if you DONT want it to be plain text, like for example, you want it to be html.

you can google for mime types to learn more about them if you want.

have you tried sending the email to some different email addresses?

you might also want to try this

$result = mail($emailAddr, $subject, $message, "From: $EMail\r\n");  

var_dump($result);

[Aliz__]

ok i will try that too.
But yes I have tried different emails. its weird, either it works for a certain email everytime or it never works for other emails. It doesn't make sense.

[Aliz__]

nope still didn't work
grrrr this thing is pissin me off. and i know the solution is probably something really simple too i just can't figure it out.

any other ideas.
I have an msn account also and I just tried to send it to that and i didn't recieve anything. I sent multiple emails with it also.
what could it be???

[rehfeld]

well what was the output of the var_dump() ? if it didnt produce any output then you call to mail() is never being made.

what emails have you tried? you dont need to tell me the full emails like [e-mail], just tell me the domains of the emails you have tried, like hotmail.com, msn.com etc....

btw- like said above, hotmail and msn email accounts seem to flag most php emails as spam unless you include certain extra headers. this header seems to solve it.

X-MSMail-Priority: High

[Aliz__]

thanks i will try that header.
here are some emails i have tried. . .

[e-mail] -- works
[e-mail] -- works
[e-mail] -- doesn't work
[e-mail] -- doesn't work
[e-mail] -- doesn't work

[rehfeld]

try these headers then

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";