[SmartBiz]

Hello,

I need some help.

I need to know if there is a possibility for mail() function to not work sometimes.

What I mean is: in a script the members sometimes receive their emails, sometimes they don't. But the server is up.

Is all about the server settings?

Thank you for your help in advance!

[Man Down]

If the mail function doesn't work sometimes and does others it could be a problem with your smtp server. Heres a basic way to check if your mail function is working. Just change my@address.com to your email address.

PHP Code:

<?

if (!mail('my@address.com', 'subject', 'message', 'headers') {

echo "Mail failed";

} else {

echo "Mail sent";

}

?>

[SmartBiz]

Yes. I checked in this way before and the results are the same ... Not worked all the time ...


Thank you very much,

[paulj000]

I was having similar problems on a server with mail() function. I was having an email sent to me everytime someone signed up for a newsletter and I was also having their form contents that they filled out written/appended to a text file.

I kept monitoring the text file and there would be new signups but I would only occassionally get the email also that the script was supposed to send. OF COURSE everytime I filled out the form to test it I recieved the email.... but not always when someone else filled out the form.

I quickly lost faith in the mail() function... at least on that server.

[ivan]

I have problem with mail() function.When i make a "contact us" form, such as :
-----------------------------
to : info@zxcvbnm.com
your name : asdfghjkl
your email : wer@asdfghjkl.com
message : 123 testing
----------------------------
when the sender click submit button,the message is "your mail is succesfully sent", but when i checked at the contact mail (info@zxcvbnm.com) there is no message from the sender. Can you help me, what possibly the mistake?

[Reoplex]

maybe if you post part of the script we can find out if there is something wrong with the coding.

[ivan]

hi reoplex, if my script (contact us script) I put in free hosting server (lycos), my script succesfull running, and i got the email

[ToolTip85]

i dont really like the mail() function it's buggy on some servers, i use MySQL instead combined with phpmyadmin to monitor forms/etc and lycos free server only allows 50 mails per day

[ivan]

hi all, this is my action script :
<?php
$emailto="info@xtremecafe.net";
$from = "From: $name <$email>";
$subject = "Contact XtremeCafe.net";
mail("$emailto", "$subject", "$name has made a contact for info@xtremecafe.net
\nTheir e-mail is $email
\n\nTheir Message :\n $message","$from");
header("Location: contact_thanks.php");
?>
Can you help me, what possibly the mistake?