Email Form not sending messages

**rhowbust** · 08-23-2009, 12:35 PM

Hi Guys

I followed some tutorials online to have an email submit form on my webpage, I get the message sent response but nothing ever comes into the asigned mail box. Can anyone see where I am going wrong?

Here is the code on my html page:

<form id="contact_form" name="contact_form" action="contact.php" method="get">
<label>Name</label>
<br />
<input name="name" type="text" size="50" />
<label><br />
Email Address</label>
<br />
<input name="email" type="text" size="50" />
<label><br />
Comments</label>
<br />
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="10" dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en"></textarea>
</label>
<br />
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>

And here is the code in the PHP file, which is in the same level dir:

<?
$subject="from ".$_GET['name'];
$headers= "From: ".$_GET['email']."\n";
$headers.='Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
mail("rhowbust@yahoo.co.uk", $subject, "
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact letter</title>
</head>
<body>

<br>
".$_GET['comments']."
</body>
</html>" , $headers);
echo ("Your message was successfully sent!");
?>
<script>

//window.close()
</script>

**prasanthmj** · 08-24-2009, 12:59 AM

Try changing the From address to an email address on the same website. For example: name@yourwebsite.com

PHP Code:


			
$headers= "From: name@yourwebsite.com\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$_GET['email']."\n";

Some servers reject email if the From address does not match the originating host name.

**rhowbust** · 08-27-2009, 12:38 PM

Hi there, thanks for the tip, but this is still not working.
I now have this:
$subject="from ".$_GET['name'];
$headers= "From: info@utopiagardendesign.co.uk\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$_GET['email']."\n";
$headers.='Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
mail("info@utopiagardendesign.co.uk", $subject, "

Is this correct or not?
Sorry I have not worked much with PHP.

**lizciz** · 08-30-2009, 07:02 AM

Try sending a very simple mail and see if that works. Then work your way from there to what you have now and see where it goes wrong.

Also, I don't know exactly what forms for the From header field that works, but I've learned that it should be as in

From: "Your Name" <email@domain.com>

PHP Code:


			
// Try this
mail("you_email@domain.com", "testing", "testing", "From: \"Your Name\" <email@domain.com>");