Mail Not Sending

[The_Silent]

I'm working on adding a confirmation email for the approval of new members in my fanlisting management script, but the emails aren't sending, at least not to my testing email. The script is as follows, using the mail () function ... it's most likely that I'm not using it correctly, as I've never used it before...

<?php
/*************************************
* Addict v0.1                        *
* Manage.Members.php                 *
* ================================== *
* Copyright 2005                     *
* Coded by Nite Phire                *
* http://dissonance.ketsukaiten.net/ *
* [e-mail]          *
*************************************/

/* Approve ()
   This function moves an approved member to the proper member
   table based on the listing. */

function Approve () {

     GLOBAL $tableprefix;
     $id = $_GET['id'];
     $query = mysql_query ('SELECT * FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_pending WHERE id="' . $id . '"');
     $member = mysql_fetch_assoc ($query);

     $listing = $member['listing'];
     $name = $member['name'];
     $country = $member['country'];
     $email = $member['email'];
     $hideemail = $member['hideemail'];
     $website = $member['website'];

     mysql_query ('INSERT INTO ' . $tableprefix . $listing . '_members SET name="' . $name . '",
                                                                           country="' . $country . '",
                                                                           email="' . $email . '",
                                                                           hideemail="' . $hideemail . '",
                                                                           website="' . $website . '"')
                                   or die ('Could not move member to correct database.');

     mysql_query ('DELETE FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_pending WHERE id="' . $id . '"')
                                   or die ('Could not remove from pending table.');

     $getlisting = mysql_query ('SELECT name FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_listings WHERE listing="' . $listing . '"');
     $listinginfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($getlisting);
     $listingname = $listinginfo['name'];

     $adminquery = mysql_query ('SELECT name, email FROM ' . $tableprefix . $listing . '_members WHERE id="1"');
     $admininfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($adminquery);
     $adminname = $admininfo['name'];
     $adminemail = $admininfo['email'];

     $emailsubject = 'Added To ' . $listingname;
     $emailbody = 'You have been added to the fanlisting for ' . $listingname . '.\n
                    \n
                    Name: ' . $name . '\n
                    Country: ' . $country . '\n
                    Hide Email: ' . $email . '\n
                    Website: ' . $website . '\n
                    \n
                    If you have any questions, email ' . $adminname . ' at ' . $adminemail . '.';
     $emailheader = 'From: ' . $adminemail . '\r\n';

     mail ($email, $emailsubject, $emailbody, $emailheader);

     print ('Added ' . $name . ' to ' . $listingname . '.<br /><br />');

     ManageMembers ();

};

/* ApproveNoURL ()
   This function moves an approved member to the proper member
   table based on the listing. */

function ApproveNoURL () {

     GLOBAL $tableprefix;
     $id = $_GET['id'];
     $query = mysql_query ('SELECT * FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_pending WHERE id="' . $id . '"');
     $member = mysql_fetch_assoc ($query);

     $listing = $member['listing'];
     $name = $member['name'];
     $country = $member['country'];
     $email = $member['email'];
     $hideemail = $member['hideemail'];

     mysql_query ('INSERT INTO ' . $tableprefix . $listing . '_members SET name="' . $name . '",
                                                                           country="' . $country . '",
                                                                           email="' . $email . '",
                                                                           hideemail="' . $hideemail . '",
                                                                           website=""')
                                   or die ('Could not move member to correct database.');

     mysql_query ('DELETE FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_pending WHERE id="' . $id . '"')
                                   or die ('Could not remove from pending table.');

     $getlisting = mysql_query ('SELECT name FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_listings WHERE listing="' . $listing . '"');
     $listinginfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($getlisting);
     $listingname = $listinginfo['name'];

     $adminquery = mysql_query ('SELECT name, email FROM ' . $tableprefix . $listing . '_members WHERE id="1"');
     $admininfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($adminquery);
     $adminname = $admininfo['name'];
     $adminemail = $admininfo['email'];

     $emailsubject = 'Added To ' . $listingname;
     $emailbody = 'You have been added to the fanlisting for ' . $listingname . '.\n
                    \n
                    Name: ' . $name . '\n
                    Country: ' . $country . '\n
                    Hide Email: ' . $email . '\n
                    \n
                    If you have any questions, email ' . $adminname . ' at ' . $adminemail . '.';
     $emailheader = 'From: ' . $adminemail . '\r\n';

     mail ($email, $emailsubject, $emailbody, $emailheader);

     print ('Added ' . $name . ' to ' . $listingname . '.<br /><br />');

     ManageMembers ();

};

/* ApproveNoName ()
   This function moves an approved member to the proper member
   table based on the listing. */

function ApproveNoName () {

     GLOBAL $tableprefix;
     $id = $_GET['id'];
     $query = mysql_query ('SELECT * FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_pending WHERE id="' . $id . '"');
     $member = mysql_fetch_assoc ($query);

     $listing = $member['listing'];
     $country = $member['country'];
     $email = $member['email'];
     $hideemail = $member['hideemail'];
     $website = $member['website'];

     mysql_query ('INSERT INTO ' . $tableprefix . $listing . '_members SET name="Anonymous",
                                                                           country="' . $country . '",
                                                                           email="' . $email . '",
                                                                           hideemail="' . $hideemail . '",
                                                                           website="' . $website . '"')
                                   or die ('Could not move member to correct database.');

     mysql_query ('DELETE FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_pending WHERE id="' . $id . '"')
                                   or die ('Could not remove from pending table.');

     $getlisting = mysql_query ('SELECT name FROM ' . $tableprefix . 'addict_listings WHERE listing="' . $listing . '"');
     $listinginfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($getlisting);
     $listingname = $listinginfo['name'];

     $adminquery = mysql_query ('SELECT name, email FROM ' . $tableprefix . $listing . '_members WHERE id="1"');
     $admininfo = mysql_fetch_assoc ($adminquery);
     $adminname = $admininfo['name'];
     $adminemail = $admininfo['email'];

     $emailsubject = 'Added To ' . $listingname;
     $emailbody = 'You have been added to the fanlisting for ' . $listingname . '.\n
                    \n
                    Name: Anonymous\n
                    Country: ' . $country . '\n
                    Hide Email: ' . $email . '\n
                    Website: ' . $website . '\n
                    \n
                    If you have any questions, email ' . $adminname . ' at ' . $adminemail . '.';
     $emailheader = 'From: ' . $adminemail . '\r\n';

     mail ($email, $emailsubject, $emailbody, $emailheader);

     print ('Added ' . $name . ' to ' . $listingname . '.<br /><br />');

     ManageMembers ();

};

?>

Note: I removed a function from the end of the file that doesn't cause a problem, in order to stay under the 10,000 character limit.

[100110]

Hi The Silent do you get some error?

[The_Silent]

No. No error at all. It just doesn't send the mail. That's what's confusing me...

[drew010]

who manages your server? a company or you? do you know if an mta is setup? if so is php allowed to send mail through it? if on windows is a proper smtp server set up?

mail returns true if the message was successfully piped to the mta (doesnt mean it ws sent) aand false if it couldnt send it to a mta.

id recommend checking the return value to see if it can even get it to a mta. also try a very simple one line script like

<?php
echo mail('[e-mail]', 'subject', 'message', 'From: [e-mail]');
?>

hopefully it will print out a 1, and even more hopefully the message will arrive at your box. and try not to use a provider like yahoo, hotmail or aol. they tend to filter out basic emails like that.