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Re: Trouble with sending e-mail from simple php script [message #176473 is a reply to message #176466] Sun, 08 January 2012 09:20 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Jan 7, 11:06 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On 1/7/2012 2:01 PM, C wrote:
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>> I have a simple form which is handled in a *.htm file by
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>> <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="send_msg.php">
>> <PRE>
>>      Your name<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" MAXLENGTH=35 SIZE=50>
>>      Company<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="orgn"  MAXLENGTH=60 SIZE=50>
>>      City and country<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="locn"
>> MAXLENGTH=60 SIZE=50>
>>      Your e-mail address<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="emad"  MAXLENGTH=60
>> SIZE=50>
>>      Your message<TEXTAREA NAME="question" WRAP=VIRTUAL
>> ROWS=5 COLS=45></TEXTAREA>
>>                            <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Send message">
>> </PRE>
>> </FORM>
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>> Then the send_msg.php should send the e-mail by the following code
>> (but does not send e-mail). What am I doing wrong?
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>> <?php
>> $date = date("F jS Y, h:iA");
>> if ($name == ""&&  $question == "") {exit;}
>> $host=@gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR);
>> $headers = "From: postmas...@domainname1.org \r\n";
>> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP \r\n";
>> if(mail("myusernameh...@gmail.com", "Comments from someone.",
>> "$host on the contacts page at $date \n
>> --- \n
>> $name from $orgn, $locn ($emad) wrote:\n\n
>> $question", $headers)) { $msg = "Thank you"; } else { $msg = "Message
>> not sent"; }
>> echo $msg;
>> ?>
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>> <html>
>> <head>
>>    <title>Test form to email</title>
>> </head>
>
>> <body>
>> <?php echo $msg ?>
>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>
>> <?php
>> echo "<HTML>";
>> echo '<BODY bgcolor="#E0FFE0" text="#008000" leftmargin="30"
>> topmargin="20">';
>> echo '<FONT face="Arial" size=1>  <B>';
>> echo $msg ;
>> echo "Thank you. Your message has been sent.";
>> echo "</B>  </FONT>  </HTML>";
>> ?>
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>> Thanks for all help/replies.
>
>> By the way, PHP.INI contained the following but suspecting this to be
>> a problem, I removed the file, and it still does not work.
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>> register_globals = off
>> allow_url_fopen = off
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>> expose_php = Off
>> max_input_time = 60
>> variables_order = "EGPCS"
>> extension_dir = ./
>> upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
>> precision = 12
>> SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
>> url_rewriter.tags =
>> "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="
>
>> ; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires
>> Zend Optimizer support
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>> ;[Zend]
>> ;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
>> ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
>> ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/
>> Optimizer_TS-3.3.3
>> ;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/
>> ZendExtensionManager.so
>> ;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/
>> ZendExtensionManager_TS.so
>
>> ; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be
>> needed!
>> ; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your
>> PHP site.
>
>> ;disable_functions =
>> "highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru,
>> ;                phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit,
>> ;                     popen, proc_open,
>> proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink"
>
> In addition to what LUUK said - there can be a lot of problems -
> anywhere from your SMTP server rejecting the message for any of a number
> of reasons to the client machine rejecting the message.

Even if the message were rejected, I would still see something in that
frame, but I get only a blank frame. Client machine rejecting the
message should not even be noticed by this PHP script, or would it?

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> P.S. unless you are E. Mousa from time Advertising Agency, you should
> not be using his domain name in your code.

Which domain name does he have? I can of course use example.***.

You should instead use
> example.com, example.org, etc., which are specifically reserved for such
> uses.
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> --
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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