[RESOLVED] mail function

[afrankford]

I am trying to send the contents of an html form. Everything works great up until I try to mail the contents.

<?php

$page_title = 'Post Sent ~ Thank You!';

$SESSION['pword'] = $POST['pword'];
$SESSION['fEntry'] = $POST['fEntry'];
$SESSION['memname'] = $POST['memname'];
$SESSION['topic'] = $POST['topic'];
$SESSION['post_date'] = $POST['post_date'];

include ('./SAOAheader.inc');

$message = "Poster's Name: {$SESSION['memname']} \n\nDate: {$SESSION['post_date']} \n\nTopic: {$_SESSION['topic']}";

$message = $message . "\n\nPost Entry: {$_SESSION['fEntry']}";

mail("[e-mail]" , "SAOA Post" , $message, "SAOA Website");

?>

The message will not send to my sbcglobal.net email or an alternate email I have. Does anyone see anything here that would keep this from mailing? The only think that I can think of is a SPAM filter is catching the message.

Any help is appreciated greatly!
Thanks!

[Houdini]

Do you get an error message of any sort, or is it just that the mail does not arrive?

[afrankford]

Everything works... the html looks great, but the mail doesnt' send/arrive.

[chrislive]

mail functions are a bit touchy...

mail([e-mail], subject, $message, "From: $from_name <$from_email>\nAny Other Header Details);

if the emails are not being sent then maybe its your PHP.ini configuration...

[MarkR]

I assume you've got all errors / warnings enabled and none occur.

Have you looked at the log of your MTA to see whether the email is being delivered?

If the mail is being delivered to the domain's server successfully but not arriving in your mailbox, the problem is internal to your ISP - maybe they are junking it for random reason (Which they are likely to do if they are AOL).

Mark

[Houdini]

First off none of the $SESSION variable will get set because you have not started a session in this script with a session_start(). So you need first to do this;

<?php
session_start();
...
?>

I would also change the $message like this

$message = "Poster's Name: {$_SESSION['memname']} \n\nDate: {$_SESSION['post_date']} \n\nTopic: {$_SESSION['topic']}";
$message .= "\n\nPost Entry: {$_SESSION['fEntry']}"

also your mail as pointed out earlier must follow a specific parameter layout

mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]] )

As you can see there are five possible parameter (two are optional) but normally four are used. Also you will read in the PHP:Manual that a message should not exceed 72 characters per line so you might want to use the wordwrap() function with message something like

$newmessage=wordwrap($message,72,"\r\n<br />");

[afrankford]

Thank you for all of your suggestions... I took quite a few of them. I finally received the messages about twenty-four hours after I sent them from the website. With my previous sites, the messages were received instantly. I'll have to talk to the server administrator to find out why the messages are taking so long to arrive.

Thanks again!
aka