PHP mail() not sending

[pastet89]

Hi.
I use the mail() function to send out am email.
When I put a simple and short string the bodymail, I get the letter.
When I put a very long HTML code, I get nothing. I tried first escaping the string with addslashes(), but it again didn't work.
I get no errors evem when I put

error_reporting(E_ALL);

, smiply the message is not sent!
Do you have any ideas?
Here goes the HTML string I use in the code:

<table width="650" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td bgcolor="#eee6d9" colspan="5">
            <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding-left: 15px;">You have got an Iquiry from one of our costumers<br />
            If you are having trouble reading this email please log in to your account<a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(56, 74, 134); font-size: 11px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">.</a></p>
            </td>
            <td><img height="56" width="1" border="0" alt="" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/spacer.gif" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td bgcolor="#f7f2e6" colspan="3"><img height="55" width="442" border="0" alt="" id="n08mcburgundy_r2_c1" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/08-mc-burgundy_r2_c1.png" name="n08mcburgundy_r2_c1" /></td>
            <td bgcolor="#f7f2e6" colspan="2"><img height="55" width="208" border="0" alt="Your Company Logo" id="n08mcburgundy_r2_c4" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/logo.png" name="n08mcburgundy_r2_c4" /></td>
            <td><img height="55" width="1" border="0" alt="" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/spacer.gif" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td height="31" width="647" bgcolor="#f7f2e6" colspan="5"><a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; padding-left: 15px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Subscribe</a> | <a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Back Issues</a> | <a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Article Archive</a> | <a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Resource Center</a> | <a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Request Demo</a> | <a style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">example.com</a></td>
            <td><img height="31" width="1" border="0" alt="" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/spacer.gif" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td bgcolor="#f7f2e6">&nbsp;</td>
            <td valign="top" bgcolor="#f7f2e6">
            <h1 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(146, 139, 119); font-size: 18px;">IN THIS ISSUE:</h1>
            <h2>&nbsp;</h2>
            <font color="#808080"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
            <h2>Hello {{firstname}} {{lastname}},</h2>
            <h2>You have an inquiry from {{country}} on your property.</h2>
            <h2>The following is added.</h2>
            <h2>Arrival date&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {{arrival_date}}</h2>
            <h2>Departure date&nbsp;&nbsp; {{departure_date}}</h2>
            <h2>Total party size&nbsp;&nbsp; {{with_children}}</h2>
            <h2>with&nbsp; {{only_children}}&nbsp; Children</h2>
            </span><br />
            </font>
            <p><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://4homesonly.com" target="_blank">Please check the availability of your property here:</a><br />
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">MESSAGE:<br />
            <br />
            {{message}}<a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: right; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="mailto:[e-mail]"><br />
            </a></p>
            </td>
            <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
            <td height="380" width="28" bgcolor="#f7f2e6"><a href="/userfiles/image/Active holiday Boy with fish.jpg"><img height="342" width="232" src="/userfiles/image/Active holiday Boy with fish.jpg" alt="boy" /></a></td>
            <td><img height="380" width="1" border="0" alt="" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/spacer.gif" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td bgcolor="#f7f2e6" rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
            <td bgcolor="#f7f2e6" colspan="3">
            <h1 style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Featured Products</h1>
            <p style="color: rgb(146, 139, 119); font-size: 12px; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consect etuer adip iscing elit. Phasellus dui non magna commodo nascetur ridiculus           volutpat porttitor. <br />
            Ullamcorper sed, lobortis pretium, mi. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consect etuer adip iscing elit. Phasell.</p>
            </td>
            <td height="407" width="28" bgcolor="#f7f2e6" rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
            <td><img height="124" width="1" border="0" alt="" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/images/spacer.gif" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td valign="top" bgcolor="#f7f2e6" colspan="3">
            <h1 style="font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Email Admin Center</h1>
            <p style="font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(146, 139, 119); font-size: 12px;">This newsletter is a service of Example.com. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages please go here to unsubscribe or send an email to: [e-mail] <br />
            <br />
            To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add [e-mail] to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at [e-mail].<br />
            <a style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#"><br />
            Update Your Profile</a> | <a style="font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Web Version</a> | <a style="font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dick/Desktop/Email%20templates/08-mc-burgundy/index.htm#">Subscribe to Name</a></p>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

10x in advance

[halojoy]

What would be interesting to see
is the php script you use to send mail.

There can be a number of reasons a mail server does not accept to send an email.
And mail servers are different.
Some would require a minimum of certain headers.
Like "From: [e-mail]'
I use at least From: and Reply-To:

This is like what I use.
But for sending your HTML, you should change to
Content-type: text/html;

<?php

$sender   = "Sender Name";             //senders name
$mailfrom = "[e-mail]";        //senders e-mail adress
$mailto   = "[e-mail]";      //recipient

$subject  = "Subject for reviever";    //subject
$message  = "The text for the mail.  

We should read now.
Hej Hej";                          //mail body message

$header  = "MIME-Version 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "From: ".$sender." <".$mailfrom.">\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: ".$mailfrom."\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();

$success = mail($mailto, $subject, $message, $header);

if($success) echo 'Ok, mail sent';
else         echo 'Sorry, mail failure';

?>

[johnpeace]

I use the mail() function to send out am email.

Not exactly.

PHP's mail() function just sends some values to the system's MTA.

As the previous poster pointed out, there can be any number of reasons why the system does not then send an email...reasons that have nothing at all to do with PHP.

What server is this taking place on?

[yurek]

I will give you a model code php form. Look at the difference with your code and find the error.

<form>
     <table>
      <tr>
        <td>Name *</td>
        <td><input type="text"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
          <td>Email *</td>
          <td><input type="text"></td>
     </tr>
      <tr>
          <td>Phone</td>
          <td><input type="text"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
          <td>Field_check</td>
          <td>
             <input type="checkbox" value="1"><label>Check_1</label><br>
             <input type="checkbox" value="2"><label>Check_2</label><br>
             <input type="checkbox" value="3"><label>Check_3</label>
          </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>Message *</td>
          <td><textarea rows="5"></textarea></td>
      </tr>
          <tr>
          <td colspan="2"> </td>
      </tr>
          <tr>
          <td colspan="2"> </td>
      </tr>
     <tr>
          <td><input type="button" id="subbut" value="Submit"></td>
      </tr>
     </table>
</form>

[qadeer_ahmad]

Let me give you a simple function
function sendMail($To,$Subject,$Message,$Name, $From){
mail($To,$Subject,$Message,"From: $Name <$From> \nReply-To:<$From> \nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");
}

just call it here in $Message you can give a html full page with simple html tags so it send a html email easily and work fine no spam email here.

[sneakyimp]

Gadeer, depending on how your function is used, you may suffer from mail header injection (which means the botnet could use your code to send spam mail). You'd have to validate your input to prevent that.

Yurek, I'm not sure what you are trying to say?

Everyone may find this thread helpful. When mail doesn't get through, it could be due to any number of reasons.

[bradgrafelman]

Also note that you should never use a user-supplied e-mail address in the "From:" header.

The From header should always be a valid e-mail address on your domain. If you want to incorporate the user's e-mail address, use the Reply-To header.