some mail doesn't come through with mail()

pdxer

Hello,

I'm having problems using the mail() function on a form. It goes through fine if it's sent to my yahoo address but I don't recieve it when I send it to an address at my domain.

I am offsite at the moment and do not have the code to post. But wondering if this could be an issue with the particular mail servers rather than my code.

Any thoughts or speculation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Craig

bradgrafelman

Could be a headers problem, could be that your domain is snagging the email as spam.

It would be nice to see the code, but the above are two very real and common problems.

pdxer

Thanks for the suggestion.

At long last here is the code:

mail("$SiteEmail", "Message title", $AdminMessage, "From: $email\r\nReply-To:$email" );

It now seems to work on my own server but when I upload to my client's server I have problems.

I believe both servers are linux.

bradgrafelman

Try sending a very simple test e-mail... mail('myaddress@mydomain', 'test', 'test');

See if you receive it. If not, chances are sendmail isn't configured properly on that server.

If the e-mail DOES send, there might be a problem with the Unix server converting line breaks. Try sending your message without using multiple headers (i.e. just use the "From:" header).

If that works, the Unix server may be incorrectly converting LF's to CRLF automatically, erroring when you send CRLF (get's converted to CRCRLF). To test this idea, use multiple headers, but only use a LF ("\n") to separate them.

pdxer

thanks for looking over my code and making suggestions.

the simple email wouldn't go through either. I've contacted the server admin and they are currently investigating.

pdxer

OK, so now the emails have come through, they just took a couple hours or so to do so.

However, now I'm back to the same issue of it showing up in my yahoo account but not in my Outlook.

I've tried taking \r out but that didn't seem to affect that issue either.

bradgrafelman

It could be you have a MIME issue, or something. I think this issue has grown beyond my kowledge 🙁 Sorry.

pdxer

Well, thanks for trying. You suggestions seem to be on the right track and it's good to go forward knowing that at least I'm not doing something obviously wrong.

bradgrafelman

Here's my last attempt. Use these headers:

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";   

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";   

$headers .= "From: YOUR NAME HERE <$email>\n";   

$headers .= "Reply-To: <$email>\n";    

$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";   

$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";   

$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP";

And try it out.

pdxer

well I pasted in your code and then below it, I put

mail("info@myurl.org","message title","message",$headers);

I've even taken out the as many variables and hard coded where possible and still no luck.

thanks again though