[RESOLVED] send mail problem

[hoffmeister]

HI,
I have set up a mail function to email when a order is placed on my site but The mail is not comming through to my inboxs(i have tried 2 email addresses), the $to variable is fine and i get the echo "Message successfully sent!", also the server is PHP 4.3.9.

$to = $record[email];
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nthank you for placing an order\n\nplease click bellow to view you order<BR><A href=view_order.php>view order</A>";
if(mail($to, $subject, $body,'')) echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
else echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");

any help would be appreciated
thanks
Hoffmeister

[SuPerNoVi]

$to = $record[email];
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nthank you for placing an order\n\nplease click bellow to view you order<BR><A href=view_order.php>view order</A>";

if($to != "")
{
mail($to, $subject, $body, "");
print "<p>Message successfully sent!</p>";
}else{
print "<p>Message delivery failed...</p>"; 
}

Try that, the way you were doing your if statement seemed wrong to me but then maybe that's just my methods differing.

Other possible reasons for it not working may be the server SMTP. In which case I'd recommend trying the PHPMailer class. It's much more powerful then the standard class and it's helped me get over server issues in the past.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/

[hoffmeister]

Thanks for your help
Hoffmeister