Web Form Not Emailing contents

[Jabbamonkey]

I have a web form, with a form page, and a confirmation page. The form page works fine, and transfers the variables over to the confirm page. But, when the email is processed, it doesnt work. As you see below, I have set up a simple "error" message if the mail doesnt go through. For some reason the form doesnt go through and I get the error message. Can anyone see what is wrong????

Below is the processing of the form to the email that needs to be sent out.........

<?php
$toaddress = $emailform;
$subject = "Web Form";

$to_email[] = "\r\nName ".$name; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nAddress1: ".$address1; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nAddress2: ".$address2; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nCity: ".$city; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nState: ".$state; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nZip: ".$zip; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nCountry: ".$country; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nPhone: ".$telephone; 
$to_email[] = "\r\nEmail: ".$email; 

$joined_array = implode (" ", $to_email);
$mailcontent = $joined_array;
$headers = "From: ".$toaddress." \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$toaddress." \r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".$toaddress." \r\n";
$headers .= "CC: ".$cc_email1." \r\n";
if($cc_email2)
{ 		
$headers .= "CC: ".$cc_email2." \r\n"; 		 
}
// $headers .= "BCC: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";
// $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n"; 
// $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n"; 
// $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n"; 
$sendmail = mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $headers);

if($sendmail)
{
		?>SUCCESS!<?php
} else {
		?>ERROR!!!!<?php
}
?>

[bradgrafelman]

You get the error message? Try sending the mail without using the extra headers, i.e. take off the last parameter of your call to mail().

I'm thinking perhaps you're using a mailer that's not very RFC compliant, and is converting line endings for you. More about this specific problem can be found by reading the manual entry for mail() under the 'additional_headers' part.

[Jabbamonkey]

I just tried the following...

$sendmail = mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "email message...");

...and I still got my Error..... so it's not the headers .... why isnt this working??!?!?

[bradgrafelman]

Do a phpinfo() and check the sendmail path... assuming your webserver is *nix based. Is it? If it's Windows, make sure the SMTP host, username, and password settings are correct.

[Jabbamonkey]

I'm starting to get a bit confused as I am a newbie .... Here is some of the Phpinfo result .......

PHP Version 4.3.10

System Windows NT HDFLW309 5.0 build 2195

Build Date Dec 14 2004 17:46:48

Server API CGI/FastCGI

Virtual Directory Support enabled

Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINNT\php.ini

PHP API 20020918

PHP Extension 20020429

Zend Extension 20021010

Debug Build no

Thread Safety enabled

Registered PHP Streams php, http, ftp, compress.zlib

sendmail_path = no value

Any idea what is wrong???

[bradgrafelman]

Alright, so you're hosting in Windows.

Look in that PHP info for the SMTP Host, user, and pass values. Are they filled in correctly?

EDIT: I now see it's merely called "SMTP", like so:

short_open_tag On On
SMTP mail.something.com mail.something.com
smtp_port 25 25
sql.safe_mode Off Off

[id10t]

At one point I had to use ini_set() to set the values for the smtp server and mail from values... want' reading from the ini under windows for some reason.

ini_set("SMTP","your.smtp.server.fqdn");
ini_set("sendmail_from","[e-mail]");

[Jabbamonkey]

I contacted my webhost, and they said that there is currently a delay on their SMTP mail server, but it will be resolved shortly ...

However, since I tried the simple mail function to test it out...

$sendmail = mail("[e-mail]", "test email", "email message...");

... and this never went through (and I got the error messsage that I set up), the doesnt that mean that it's not a delay, but an even larger issue (on their side)?

[bradgrafelman]

Try either adding those two ini_set() lines before your mail call or editing the appropriate line in the php.ini file, being sure to use the correct information for your specific SMTP mail server.

If that doesn't work, let us know, and also post which method you tried and what you did to implement it (i.e. copy/paste the line in PHP.ini you altered or the ini_set() lines).