[tommyc325]

is there a reason why this email script is taking forever to get into my inbox

PHP Code:

<?php





$email = "myemail@gmail.com";

$subject = "this is my subject";

$message = "this is my message";

$from = "whoItsComing@from.com";



$headers = "From: ".$from;



mail($email,$subject,$message,$headers)





?>

[mdhall]

Is it sending at all?

You should also have a " ; " at the end of your mail() line.

[tommyc325]

yes it is sending

[dgreenhouse]

It could be any number of reasons.

Most probably it's on your mail server's end, but it could be gmail's server's bouncing
around the email until they decide to deliver it.

Could be due to previous grey-listing (wouldn't be black-listing because it probably wouldn't get through at all).
- Or - It might be bouncing around in other servers along the way.
- Or - Could also be due the time of day or other Internet-related traffic congestion issues.

But as stated, it's probably on your server's end - especially if you're on a shared host.

On your end, they might be sending emails from a server that's not their main smtp/imap server.

They probably have numerous servers feeding their main email servers and the mail takes a
long time to route internally. Best to talk to tech support and ask them.

Maybe they can recommend a better route / headers for outgoing mail from your server.

[tommyc325]

thats what i thought thanks guys

[Nico]

I suggest using PhpMailer to send emails. It includes all necessary headers and standards. So perhaps your mails get through a little faster this way.

[dgreenhouse]

Yep, I like PhpMailer too...

I've learned a lot about the standards by digging into that code base while reading the RFC's.

[esandra]

how do i choose the right phpmailer version for me, does the version matters at all? Because when I open the page these errors occur:
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Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/ftpclients/itproject/itproj04/phpMailer_v2.1/test/phpunit.php on line 115

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/ftpclients/itproject/itproj04/phpMailer_v2.1/test/phpunit.php on line 150

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/ftpclients/itproject/itproj04/phpMailer_v2.1/test/phpunit.php on line 231

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/ftpclients/itproject/itproj04/phpMailer_v2.1/test/phpunit.php on line 295

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/ftpclients/itproject/itproj04/phpMailer_v2.1/test/phpunit.php on line 295
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I've tried two versions and I think the errors are just the same, they are just not on the same line.

[dgreenhouse]

The simplest way to stop the warnings is to set: allow_call_time_pass_reference to TRUE in
your php.ini, but that's only a quick solution as you may have problems in future versions of PHP.

As noted in this sentence from the PHP docs:
"This method is deprecated in PHP 5.3.0 and is likely to be unsupported in future versions of PHP/Zend."

You can also change your error reporting level to quash the error notification.

Lastly; which is probably not the wisest as it might return if you upgrade phpMailer and they don't fix it the call in their code,
is to remove the ampersand preceding the passed arguments in errant the lines you've noted in your post.
(On the above, you might be: using an older version, the folks that put out phpMailer haven't modified the code or you're using the php4 version.)

RE: changing the code...

Code:

$welcome = "Hello World!";

echo badReferencePassed(&$welcome);  // This will cause a warning in new PHP 5.(something) versions


function badReferencePassed (&$var) // reference should only be defined in the function definition
{
  // do something...
  return $something_done;
}

This error won't keep the module from running.

As far as the version goes, just choose close to latest stable version for your version of PHP.

I can imagine it's pretty confusing since they have so many versions on SourceForge.

Hope that helps...

[wirehopper]

As a general rule, the latest stable version is best.