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Why Doesn’t The Mail Function Work??

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Sep 01.2007

hi every1..

would some1 plz help me out here, i’m using this code to send an e-mail:

[code=php]$recipient=’[email protected]’;
$subject=’hi’;
$msg=’msg’;
$email=’[email protected]’;
$mailheaders = “From: t$emailn”;
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);[/code]

why doesn’t it work, no errors show up and nothing is send..

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@SZeroauthorSep 01.2007 — any1 plz?? it's urgent, i know its right code but wut could be wrong?? i tried it on lycos server didn't work too..
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@hastxSep 01.2007 — Just a stab, but try leaving the "t" out of the header and replace the "n" with rn
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@SZeroauthorSep 01.2007 — still doesn't work
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@YelgnidrocSep 01.2007 — Could be that your server is not correctly configured to send e-mail.
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@hastxSep 01.2007 — see if th server really thinks it was sent.

[code=php]
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders)){
echo "message sent";
}else{
echo "message failed";
}
[/code]

If the server thinks it was sent. then you may have another problem like spam filter, or blacklist.

You can also try turning on error reporting on the file.
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@YelgnidrocSep 01.2007 — I had an issue with an old host whereby mail() returned true, but this only means that php has done it's bit, not that the mail has actually been despatched by sendmail or whatever.
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@SZeroauthorSep 02.2007 — see if th server really thinks it was sent.

[code=php]
if (mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders)){
echo "message sent";
}else{
echo "message failed";
}
[/code]

If the server thinks it was sent. then you may have another problem like spam filter, or blacklist.

You can also try turning on error reporting on the file.[/QUOTE]

it says message failed ?



Could be that your server is not correctly configured to send e-mail.[/QUOTE]
how to do that???
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@hastxSep 03.2007 — You'll probably need to submit a trouble report. If you dont own the server, you're not going to have access to the configs.
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