Email Script

[punto]

Hello,

I hope someone can help me with this problem. I dont have much experience with php code.

I have a working mail server which I have recently installed website baker on.

It works fine but I cannot send email from the php contact form on the website that I create. I have exhausted many options to try and resolve this, and it seems that it is not a WB issue but a php one.

The weird thing is that I already have a ticketing system running on the server which also uses a php contact form and its email functionality works fine.

I was advised to test if php was working correctly by creating a file such as mail.php, with the following code:

<?php

if (mail("[e-mail]","Hello","This is a test")) {
echo "Success";
} else {
echo "Failure";
}

?>

I did this and then when I browse to http://mymailserver.com/mail.php I get a success message in the browser but no email is sent.

If I put an incorrect email address in the script I get a failed message.

In my mail logs I get the following message:

delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:20, mailer=relay, pri=30056, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k7A5uuN0010589 Message accepted for delivery)

The message is accepted for delivery but nothing comes through?

As I stated this is a fucntioning mail server (Centos 4.3 and sendmail). I also can send email from other php scripts within a ticketing program (Hesk)

These are the php rpm's I have installed on the machine:

php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.15
php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.15
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.15
php-pear-4.3.9-3.15
php-odbc-4.3.9-3.15
php-imap-4.3.9-3.15
php-4.3.9-3.15
php-snmp-4.3.9-3.15
php-domxml-4.3.9-3.15
php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.15
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.15
php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.15
php-gd-4.3.9-3.15
php-devel-4.3.9-3.15

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Matt

[etully]

Check your spam filter to see if the mail is getting caught there.

Try sending to a different email address just for testing purposes. Preferably one on a completely different server. (For example, a Gmail address or an AOL account). If you can send to email address #2 but not email #1, then you know that the problem isn't sendmail on your server but the email address itself.

What is the ticketing system using to send the mail? Is it using sendmail on the web server? Is it using some remote machine as the mail server? Is it a PHP script that relies on sendmail being specified in the PHP config or is it a Perl script that contacts Sendmail directly?

As for a test script, I'd use something a tiny bit more robust like this:

<?


mail("[e-mail]", "This is the subject line"," ","From:[e-mail]\nReply-To:[e-mail]\n\n



This is the body of the message.



");


?>

Notice that this code has a "From" and a "Reply-To" address and a subject line which will make it less likely to be rejected as spam by any of the delivery machines involved.

[punto]

etully wrote:

Notice that this code has a "From" and a "Reply-To" address and a subject line which will make it less likely to be rejected as spam by any of the delivery machines involved.

That did it!! Thankyou so much for your help, my mailer needs a from address otherwise the message doesnt get sent!!

Cheers and thanks again

Matt.