Cant receive emails from Contact Form...

dzgyrl

Hello,

Im noticing I have a issue. I can receive emails from my contact
form as long as they are emails from my domain. Any
outside email addresses put in the "from" box on the
contact form, I dont receive. What can be changed in
the script that will allow ANYONE to send me an email
from this box. I am currently using Yahoo as my web
hosting company..

My current php script....

<?
Error_Reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

while ($request = current($REQUEST)) {
if (key($REQUEST)!='recipient') {
$pre_array=split ("&777&", $request);
$post_vars[key($REQUEST)][0]=$pre_array[0];
$post_vars[key($REQUEST)][1]=$pre_array[1];
}
next($_REQUEST);
}

reset($post_vars);
$subject="From ".$post_vars['your_name'][0] ;
$headers= "From: ".$post_vars['your_email'][0] ."\n";
$headers.='Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1';
$message='';
while ($mess = current($post_vars)) {
if ((key($post_vars)!="i") &&
(key($post_vars)!="your_email") &&
(key($post_vars)!="your_name")) {

$message.="<strong>".$mess[1]."</strong>   ".$mess[0]."<br>";
}
next($post_vars);
}

mail($_REQUEST['recipient'], $subject, "
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact letter</title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
".$message."
</body>
</html>" , $headers);
echo ("We will respond to your request within 24-48 hrs. Have a
CREATIVE day!");

?>
<script>
resizeTo(300, 300);
</script>

Please Help! I have been trying to figure this out for 2 weeks!

dmacman1962

Hi dzgryl,

A couple of things.

It is a lot easier for us to peruse your code if you use the php wrap (The little icon above the edit window with the letters "php" in it). Or you can use [ p h p ] <- to start then [ / p h p ] <-to end (NO spaces, I added them so you could see the actual tag).

I found that this works everytime. Then sendmail function is picky with line endings \r\n and format. I would try mine below and see how it works for you 1st.

$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);//open the connection

$EmailAddress = $_POST['EmailAddress'];//gte the email address

$message = '<html><head></head><body><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings!</font></body></html>';//define the body of the message

		//define the header and subject
		$header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
		$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
		$header .= "From: youremail@yourdomain.com\r\n";
		$subject = "Your subject... ";
		$email_to = $EmailAddress;

		mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header) ;//this sends the email defined above.

fclose($fp);//close the connection, all done

Try this and we can help you fine tune it after.

Don

dzgyrl

Hello,

I used this code and nothing still... I never received the email... this seems to be difficult to do. Please help!

dmacman1962

Do you know how to check the phpfinfo?

<?php
echo phpinfo();
?>

Save this to a file called phpinfo.php and upload it to your server.

Then goto that page:

Example http://www.yoursite.com/subdirectory/phpinfo.php

Then do a search for "sendmail_from" and it should be a valid email address. IE mines admin@mysite.com.

Tell us what you get here.

Don

dzgyrl

Don,

I TRULY appreciate all your help.. but this is my first experience with php.. I am a newbie to this, so all of this is foreign. I hope you are still willing to help me.

dmacman1962

I am glad to help.

Did you save out the file and upload it to your server?

Did you do the search for that setting?

If not, where do you need help?

Don

dzgyrl

Hello,

This is what I got out of the message you gave me.. I used this code:

<?php

$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);//

$EmailAddress = $_POST['EmailAddress'];//gte the email address

$message = '<html><head></head><body><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings!</font></body></html>';//define the body of the message

        //define the header and subject 
        $header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; 
        $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; 
        $header .= "From: [email]youremail@yourdomain.com[/email]\r\n"; 
        $subject = "Your subject... "; 
        $email_to = $EmailAddress; 

        mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header) ;//this sends the email defined above.

fclose($fp);//

I saved it as phpinfo.php. I then went to the site and nothing comes up.

Now I dont understand this:

Then do a search for "sendmail_from" and it should be a valid email
address. IE mines admin@mysite.com.

dmacman1962

Actually, you got it backwards.

Lets try this first (thanks to NogDog). NOTE: change the email address to your email address 1st.

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$result = mail("foobar@fakesite.xxx", "This is a test message", "This is a test body");

if(!$result)
{
   echo "<p>The mail() command failed. Hopefully you got some debug info before this message.</p>";
}
else
{
   echo "<p>It seems like mail() worked.</p>";
}
?>

Save this to your server and run it. Tell us what you get.

Then we can try the following.

In the file called phpinfo.php you should just have this code...

------------------------- save whats inside this box as the phpinfo.php file -----------------

<?
echo phpinfo();
?>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This code would go the page that processes the form results.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title></title>
</head>
<?php
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);//
$EmailAddress = $_POST['EmailAddress'];//gte the email address
$message = '<html><head></head><body><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings!</font></body></html>';//define the body of the message

//define the header and subject
$header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$header .= "From: youremail@yourdomain.com\r\n";
$subject = "Your subject... ";
$email_to = $EmailAddress;

mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header) ;//this sends the email defined above.
echo 'Mail was sent to ' . $email_to .'<br />';
fclose($fp);//
?>
<body>
</body>
</html>

So your html form is where we got the

$EmailAddress = $_POST['EmailAddress']

Does that help?
By the way, here is the link to the php mail info.

Don

dzgyrl

Ok Don,

We are making progress!! Im so excited... I got through step and step 2 with the phpinfo.php... After I updated the files, I ran the php, and it sent a email to my email address.. and also the contact.php file pops up and says "It seems like it works"... so I am ready for last step that I have questions about:

When I get the message, it doesnt give me the information from the contact form? Now Im looking at step 3 which looks like it will resolve this problem, BUT Im not sure where to place this code. Do I place it where I put the code from step 1?

dmacman1962

Your contact form should look something like this. (very basic example).

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="send_email.php" method="post" target="_self">
Enter your email address<input name="EmailAddress" type="text" />
<br /><br />
<input name="Reset" type="reset" id="reset" value="Reset" />
&nbsp;&nbsp;<input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Then this sends the EmailAddress field to the process page (call this page send_email.php).

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title></title>
</head>
<?php
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);//
$EmailAddress = addslashes($_POST['EmailAddress']);//gte the email address
$message = '<html><head></head><body><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings!</font></body></html>';//define the body of the message

//define the header and subject
$header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$header .= "From: youremail@yourdomain.com\r\n";
$subject = "Your subject... ";
$email_to = $EmailAddress;

mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header) ;//this sends the email defined above.
echo 'Mail was sent to ' . $email_to .'<br />';
fclose($fp);//
?>
<body>
</body>
</html>

That is a simple example, but should get you going.

Let me know how it works.

Don

dzgyrl

Ok,

Well things have gone south now.. let me explain what I have.

I have a contact.php file with this script:

<title>Untitled</title>

</head>
<body>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="send_email.php" method="post" target="_self">
Enter your email address<input name="EmailAddress" type="text" />
<br /><br />
<input name="Reset" type="reset" id="reset" value="Reset" />
  <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit"
value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$result = mail("example@example.com", "Message from mysite.com", "This
is a test body");

if(!$result)
{
echo "<p>The mail() command failed. Hopefully you got some debug
info before this message.</p>";
}
else
{
echo "<p>Thank you for contacting Kee2Creativity! Your message was sent successfully. We will respond to your message within 24-48 hrs. Have a CREATIVE day!.</p>";
}
?>

</body>
</html>

I have another file phpinfo.php with the short script you provided me.

And lastly I have the send_email.php file with the information you provided.

I am still able to receive the emails, but it is not populating any of the information from the actual contact form. When I added that contact form info into the contact.php file, it created a email address bar in the same page as the contact.php. Was that script suppose to go somewhere else?

Am I missing something??

dmacman1962

I believe so.

To make it simplier, here is a zip file with 3 files in it.

1) testform.php
This is your form that gathers their email address, and sends it to send_mail.php.

2) send_mail.php
This checks to make sure its a valid (at least basic email format address) and then if valid, sends the email and says thanks.

3) mailtest.php
This is the file that runs a basic test on your email settings, and reports any errors.

Try the testform.php first and see if it takes the email address, and sends and email to it.

If that works, you just need to add your code to store the email address to the send_mail.php file and you should be good to go.

Let me know,

Don

mr_jinsue

Hi, I've read through everything that you two have tried and tried them myself as I have a similar issue to dzgyrl in that while my forms and php code I belive to be correct won't email ANYTHING regardless of what the To, From etc is set as.

Here's is what I've got.

<PHP>
//New code.
$name = $POST['name'];
$wherehear = $POST['wherehear'];
$contactnumber = $POST['contactnumber'];
$email = $POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
//End new code.

$bodystuff = "$name used the contact page\n\nName: $name\nReffered: $wherehear\nPhone_Number: $contactnumber\nEmail: $email\n\n$message";

mail( "my@email.com", "Message from website contact form.",
$bodystuff, "From:$email" );

header( "Location: contact_thanks.htm" );
</PHP>

With a html form alone the lines of (below) but with more inputs for name, wherehear etc which I have checked and recheck so that the name="name" and $name = $_POST['name']; all fit correctly.

However, here's the problem, I submit the form it thinks about it, and goes to my .php file, but unfortunatly I recieve no email!

Facts: - I'm using a hotmail email account as the from and to. I have a personal me@domain.id.au email account if that helps.
- I checked my phpinfo on server and it says, sendmail_from

| php@mail1.example.com
- disable_functions | fsockopen

So when I tried your nifty mailtest.php I got some errors, however I took out the fsockopen (and close bits of code) and it seemed to work happily in that I got the mail sent successfully message.
Yet again though no email ever got to my email inbox 🙁

After a bit of chopping and changing of codes and email addresses and checking my codes, I successfully got zero emails from any code...

So, if anyone could suggest some SUPER code for me to test or some settings that may need checking/changing PLEASE let me know.

Thanks.