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Hi I use such code to send email from Flash contact form but it doesn’t work on my clients server and I don’t know why it works every where else…
<?php $senderName = $_POST['userName']; $senderEmail = $_POST['userEmail']; $senderMessage = $_POST['userMsg']; $emailAddress = $_POST['authorEmail']; $senderName = stripslashes($senderName); $senderEmail = stripslashes($senderEmail); $senderMessage = stripslashes($senderMessage); $emailAddress = stripslashes($emailAddress); $to = "$emailAddress"; $from = "$senderEmail"; $subject = "Email from your flipbook"; //Begin HTML Email Message $message = <<<EOF <htm?> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <b>Name</b>: $senderName<br /><br /> <b>Email</b>: $senderEmail<br /><br /> <b>Message</b>: $senderMessage<br /> </body> EOF; //end of message $headers = "From: $from\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; $to = "$to"; mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers); exit(); ?>
The code is pretty standard, any help will be great!
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Try to use PHPMailer, it’s a great PHP library. http://phpmailer.worxware.com/ download the right version for you, and check the examples in library folder. 
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Could it be < htm? > << incorrect format ( I dont do php by the way )
Or user hasnt setup $emailAddress
Or sendmail function isnt installed on server, or incompatible version of php
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The reason as to why it doesn’t work is probably because this client’s server has not been configured to use mail() correctly, i.e. the smtp details for a webserver email address have not been setup on the server by the host.
Try, as laith said, to use PHPMailer, which will allow you to send emails using any smtp credentials 
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Reaper-Media said
The reason as to why it doesn’t work is probably because this client’s server has not been configured to use mail() correctly, i.e. the smtp details for a webserver email address have not been setup on the server by the host. Try, as laith said, to use PHPMailer, which will allow you to send emails using any smtp credentials
This is strange but I am trying with the PHPMailer with no luck ;/
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mpc said
Reaper-Media saidThis is strange but I am trying with the PHPMailer with no luck ;/
The reason as to why it doesn’t work is probably because this client’s server has not been configured to use mail() correctly, i.e. the smtp details for a webserver email address have not been setup on the server by the host. Try, as laith said, to use PHPMailer, which will allow you to send emails using any smtp credentials
are you getting any error messages and have you tried sending via smtp?
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Reaper-Media said
mpc saidare you getting any error messages and have you tried sending via smtp?
Reaper-Media saidThis is strange but I am trying with the PHPMailer with no luck ;/
The reason as to why it doesn’t work is probably because this client’s server has not been configured to use mail() correctly, i.e. the smtp details for a webserver email address have not been setup on the server by the host. Try, as laith said, to use PHPMailer, which will allow you to send emails using any smtp credentials
no error, yeah I think it was via smtp….
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mpc said
Reaper-Media saidno error, yeah I think it was via smtp….
mpc saidare you getting any error messages and have you tried sending via smtp?
Reaper-Media saidThis is strange but I am trying with the PHPMailer with no luck ;/
The reason as to why it doesn’t work is probably because this client’s server has not been configured to use mail() correctly, i.e. the smtp details for a webserver email address have not been setup on the server by the host. Try, as laith said, to use PHPMailer, which will allow you to send emails using any smtp credentials
Care to share the code that you used php mailer with?
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mpc saidCare to share the code that you used php mailer with?
Reaper-Media saidno error, yeah I think it was via smtp….
mpc saidare you getting any error messages and have you tried sending via smtp?
Reaper-Media saidThis is strange but I am trying with the PHPMailer with no luck ;/
The reason as to why it doesn’t work is probably because this client’s server has not been configured to use mail() correctly, i.e. the smtp details for a webserver email address have not been setup on the server by the host. Try, as laith said, to use PHPMailer, which will allow you to send emails using any smtp credentials
Sure, I used something like this with static emails just to check if it works…
<?php include_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$senderName = $_POST['userName'];
$senderEmail = $_POST['userEmail'];
$senderMessage = $_POST['userMsg'];
$emailAddress = $_POST['authorEmail'];
$senderName = stripslashes($senderName);
$senderEmail = stripslashes($senderEmail);
$senderMessage = stripslashes($senderMessage);
$emailAddress = stripslashes($emailAddress);
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = $mail?>getFile('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$mail->IsSendmail(); // telling the class to use SendMail transport
$mail->From = "magazinempc@gmail.com";
$mail->FromName = "Magazine MPC";
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAddress("fern666@gmail.com", "Fern");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
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Yeah you’re not using smtp with that, your just letting PHPMailer setup the php mail() function for you, what you need to do is try to set some SMTP credentials before you call $mail->Send()
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
// if the smtp server requires authentication (eg. start tls)...
/*
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecurity = "starttls";
$mail->SMTPSecure = "starttls";
*/
$mail->Host = "mail.server.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP port for the server
$mail->Username = "someone @ server.com"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP account password
Good luck
EDIT :
Also, you can play around with the debugging for PHP Mailer for when it tried to connect to the smtp server:$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // (0/1/2)
