mail() problem

[hwmetzger]

Hello everyone,
I am trying to figgure out why this function is not working. It's probably something simple but I can't find it.

function mail_to($value)
{
    $email = $value['mail'];
    $subject = 'Account Registration';
    $message = 'Your Username is: '.$value['username'].'\n\nYour Password is: '.$value['password'];
    $headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

		if (mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)) 
		{ 
		echo "User information successfully sent to ".$email.""; 
		}
		else 
		{ 
		echo "Email undeliverable.";
		}
}

When I run it, it says "Email undeliverable" and ideas?

[hwmetzger]

The $value being passed to the function is an array with elements like username, password, email, etc.

[devinemke]

obvious question: are you running the script on a server that has an SMTP app?

[hwmetzger]

How would I find that out?

I think it does, when I tried it earlier if I have a hard coded email address in there, it will send the email. When I try to send the email with a variable it doesn't like it

[devinemke]

do a simple test:

<?php
$mail = mail('[e-mail]', 'test subject', 'test body', 'From: [e-mail]');
var_dump($mail);
?>

obviously replace [e-mail] with your actual address. do you see "bool(true)" and do you receive the mail?

[hwmetzger]

Yes, I do recive the email

[devinemke]

ok then, now try:

<?php
$value = array(
'mail' => '[e-mail]',
'username' => 'hwmetzger',
'password' => '123456789'
);

function mail_to($value)
{
	$email = $value['mail'];
	$subject = 'Account Registration';
	$message = 'Your Username is: ' . $value['username'] . "\n\n" . 'Your Password is: ' . $value['password'];
	$headers = 'From: [e-mail]';

$mail_sent = mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($mail_sent) {echo 'User information successfully sent to ' . $email;}
else {echo 'Email undeliverable';}
}

mail_to($value);
?>

[hwmetzger]

What's the difference?

[devinemke]

hwmetzger;10924228 wrote:

What's the difference?

hopefully...nothing. hopefully you received the mail

[hwmetzger]

Nevermind, it worked beautifully! Thank you so much!