PHP mail quit working after upgrade

[stevendude]

Hi and thanks in advance for any help. I was using the following script (below) to process a form and send email. It worked fine but quit working last week. When I run it now I get the 'Error Sending Mail' message.

After a call to my web host, I learned they had upgraded the PHP version on that server. I think it is 4.4 but I am not sure. Can anyone tell me why this script would stop working?

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<?php
$message = "\r\nAttention: Steven \r\n" .
"The following person has sent an email \r\n \r\n" .
"Name: " . stripslashes(trim($POST['Name'])) . "\r\n" .
"E-mail: " . stripslashes(trim($POST['email'])) . "\r\n" .
"City: " . stripslashes(trim($POST['City'])) . "\r\n" .
"State: " . stripslashes(trim($POST['State'])) . "\r\n \r\n" .
"Subject: " . stripslashes(trim($POST['subject'])) . "\r\n" .
"Message: " . stripslashes(trim($POST['Message'])) . "\r\n \r\n" .
"Mailing List: " . $_POST['Mailinglist'] . "\r\n \r\n" .
"[end of information] \r\n";

$headers = 'From:' . $POST['email'] . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To:' . $POST['email'] . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

// send the email notification
$result = mail('[e-mail]',$_POST['subject'],$message,$headers);
if ($result){
echo ('Mail Sent');
} else { echo('Error Sending Mail'); }

?>

Thank you!

stevendude

[bpat1434]

Try using \n instead of \r\n in the headers... could be a problem

[stevendude]

Thanks, but that did not work. Not only does my script not work, but I tried this simple script (below) and it did not work either. But when I took out the $header references then it DID work. But I need the $headers to put the FROM address! What is going on??? Check this out and please help if you can...

This did not work:

<?php
$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\n" . 'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

$result = mail($to, $subject, $message,$headers);
if ($result){
echo ('Mail Sent');
} else { echo('Error Sending Mail'); }

?>

But this, without the $header stuff, DID work:

$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';

$result = mail($to, $subject, $message);
if ($result){
echo ('Mail Sent');
} else { echo('Error Sending Mail'); }

?>

Thank you,

stevendude

[bpat1434]

Try adding the headers one at a time...

[frost110]

Try removing the "\r\n" From your message body. That seems to be why it is causing a problem to me. Keep your headers the same.

$message = "\nAttention: Steven \n" .
"The following person has sent an email \n\n" .
"Name: " . stripslashes(trim($_POST['Name'])) . "\n" .
"E-mail: " . stripslashes(trim($_POST['email'])) . "\n" .
"City: " . stripslashes(trim($_POST['City'])) . "\n" .
"State: " . stripslashes(trim($_POST['State'])) . "\n \n" .
"Subject: " . stripslashes(trim($_POST['subject'])) . "\n" .
"Message: " . stripslashes(trim($_POST['Message'])) . "\n \n" .
"Mailing List: " . $_POST['Mailinglist'] . "\n \n" .
"[end of information] \n";

--FrosT

[stevendude]

The message body is not the problem. As I mentioned in my subsequent post, even with just a body of $message = 'hello'; I get the error.

As for adding the headers one at a time, do you mean like this?:

$headers = 'From: [e-mail]';

instead of this?

$headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\n" . 'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

Please let me know if that is what you mean or is the syntax different? Thanks.

stevendude

[bpat1434]

well, yes, and no.

Add them one at a time and see where sending fails. Don't just separate the header construction onto different lines....

[stevendude]

Not sure what you mean exactly, can you be more specific? Sorry if I am dense...

I do appreciate the help...

[stevendude]

Nothing that I am trying seems to work. Can you give me a specific example of what you mean?

Thank you!

stevendude 😕

[frost110]

It sounds like it is a bigger problem than you think. Contact your host about it. Let them know and see if they cannot figure it out.

It also could be a php.ini setting configuration problem.

Best of luck.

--FrosT

[bpat1434]

Try with no headers
Try with just FROM header
Try with FROM and X-Mailer headers
etc. etc. etc.

[stevendude]

I called my web hosting company to discuss this, since they had upgraded the PHP version. They were unable to pinpoint the cause of my scripts now not working. They did offer to move me to a newer server, where the scripts somehow miraculously worked! So I was pondering this but, imagine my surprise, last night they all started working again!

My guess is that it may have been a php.ini setting or something and they looked into it after I got off the phone and found a fix. Frustrating but seems to be working now.

Thank you so much for your help, I do appreciate it.

stevendude
www.obsessed-with-music.com

[bpat1434]

Important thing is you got your issue fixed. Glad to hear it.