trouble with mail()

[warrior_rabbit]

I know all the form values and the post process are working, because it's following all my if() statements for missing info, and echoing out the info collected into form fields, etc...and when correct it echoes the "Your listing for...has been sent" part, but I'm not getting the actual email.

Here's the condensed version...I can post the whole thing if it'll help.

  if ($_POST['submit']) 
  {
  $agent = $_POST['agent'];
  $office = $_POST['office'];
  $email = $_POST['email'];
  $property = $_POST['property'];
  $mls = $_POST['mls'];
  $date = $_POST['date'];
  $time = $_POST['time'];
  $have = $_POST['have'];
  $want = $_POST['want'];
  $changes = $_POST['new_changes'];

  $agent2 = "Agent's Name: ".$agent;
  $office2 = "Office Name: ".$office;
  $email2="Email: ".$email;
  $property2="Property: ".$property;
  $mls2 = "MLS Listing Number: ".$mls;
  $have2="Have: ".$have;
  $date2="Preferred Date: ".$date;
  $time2="Preferred Time: ".$time;
  $want2="Want: ".$want;
  $changes2="New/changes: ".$changes;

  $combined=$agent2."\n".$office2."\n".$property2."\n".$mls2."\n".$date2."\n".$time2."\n".$have2."\n".$want2."\n".$changes2;

if ( (!empty($agent)) && (!empty($office)) )
{
	if ( (!empty($date)) && (!empty($time)) )
	{
		if  ( (!empty($property)) && (!empty($mls)) ) 
		{
	  	mail( "[e-mail]", "ESDCAR Rally + Ride Have/Want Info",
    $combined,"From: $email" );
	    echo "<p>Your listing for&nbsp;".$property."&nbsp;has been sent!<br />Submit another Have or Want, or <a href=\"http://projects.describe.org/esdcar/events/broker_caravan.html?category_id=5&sub_id=22\">return to Rally+Ride</a>.</p>";		
	    }
	

Any thoughts on why?

[bradgrafelman]

Yeah... it might be classified as spam. Try adding a more complete set of headers (search this board for 'email headers' or something of the like, or look at the headers of some valid mail).

Also, are you sure PHP has been configured to send mail?

[warrior_rabbit]

Yes, PHP is configured to send email. This actually worked for me last week (on a test run from a tutorial), but then I added, like, five fields to my form and then a bunch of if statements to verify info, and now it doesn't work...The funny thing is the mail() part I didn't really change at all!

[bradgrafelman]

Try something like this:

if( !mail( "[e-mail]", "ESDCAR Rally + Ride Have/Want Info", 
    $combined,"From: $email" )) {
    echo 'Error sending mail!';
} else {
    echo 'Mail accepted for delivery.';
}

Do you get the accepted message?

If you do, and you say that it worked before you added information, I would definitely say it's because your message is appearing to be spam.

[warrior_rabbit]

I tried (including the code because there are so many if statements I wasn't sure I put it in the right place)

if ( (!empty($agent)) && (!empty($office)) )
{
	if ( (!empty($date)) && (!empty($time)) )
	{
		if  ( (!empty($property)) && (!empty($mls)) ) 
		{
	  	mail( "[e-mail]", "ESDCAR Rally + Ride Have/Want Info",
    $combined,"From: $email" );
	    echo "<p>Your listing for&nbsp;".$property."&nbsp;has been sent!<br />Submit another Have or Want, or <a href=\"http://projects.describe.org/esdcar/events/broker_caravan.html?category_id=5&sub_id=22\">return to Rally+Ride</a>.</p>";		
	    if( !mail( "[e-mail]", "ESDCAR Rally + Ride Have/Want Info",
    $combined,"From: $email" )) {
    echo 'Error sending mail!';
} else {
    echo 'Mail accepted for delivery.';
} }

...and so on and it did tell me the email was sent successfully. But I still never got it.

On the other hand, at http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php it gave

mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', $message);

as an example,

so I took out my "From:$email" -- and I still never got the email. If it was about headers/spam, wouldn't that have solved the problem?

[warrior_rabbit]

I'm still having no success, still trying to solve this problem. I still think that if I removed "From:$email" like the php.net example in my last post showed, it should have solved the supposed spam problem, but I tried fixing the headers as you suggested also.

I've replaced

mail( "[e-mail]", "ESDCAR Rally + Ride Have/Want Info",
    $combined,"From: $email" );

with

$to='[e-mail]';
$subject='ESDCAR Have/Want Info';
$headers = 'From:'. $email . "\n" .'Reply-To:' $email . "\n" .'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail( $to, $subject,
    $combined,$headers );

using the

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

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?> 

example from http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

I don't know if it works yet; I'm getting an unexpected T_VARIABLE where I set the $headers variable...and don't see why.

[bradgrafelman]

You're missing a period in this part:

'Reply-To:' $email

Also, the line endings should be a full CRLF (\r\n) as the example shows.

[warrior_rabbit]

Fixed that. Email sent. Still no email received.

Also re: the \r\n -- I took off the r because I'm desperate and php.net said "Note: If messages are not received, try using a LF (\n) only. Some poor quality Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This should be a last resort, as it does not comply with RFC 2822."

I've put it back on, as it doesn't seem to be the problem.