I ran this PHP script in a dedicated server (OVH Kimsufi, Debian 6.0 stable). <?php $msg = "coucou les amis"; $sub = "test"; $head = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n"; echo mail("31415@yopmail.com", $msg, $msg, $head); ?> Mail returned 1 but the email was never received... How to fix it ?

Reputation: 21

PHP mail don't send anything

I ran this PHP script in a dedicated server (OVH Kimsufi, Debian 6.0 stable).

<?php
$msg = "coucou les amis";
$sub = "test";
$head  = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
echo mail("[email protected]", $msg, $msg, $head);
?>

Mail returned 1 but the email was never received... How to fix it ?

Upvotes: 1

Answers (6)

Torgal

Reputation: 21

The problem was the exim ( = sendmail) default config. It do not allow direct SMTP sending (only local).

# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Upvotes: 1

Chris Warrick

Reputation: 1629

After fixing the problem described in holodoc's post, you shall consider getting rid of mail(), which is unreliable.

Upvotes: 0

Alfred

Reputation: 61783

There is a lot that can wrong. Are you using Sendmail for example. Maybe you should inspect those logs, which probably are located at.

cat /var/log/mail.log

Or maybe your email does get send, but gets delivered in the spam folder?

I would instead advice you to outsource sending out emails using for example Sendgrid. Sendgrid is free when you sent less than 200 emails daily.

Upvotes: 1

user188654

Reputation:

You made a mistake and used $msg in place of $sub where subject was required as argument to the mail() function.

$msg = "coucou les amis";
$sub = "test";
$head  = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
echo mail("[email protected]", $sub, $msg, $head);

Upvotes: 0