PHP sendmail not sending

Question

I have a form that submits to PHP self. This script runs and says it is successful, but I do not receive an email.

if(isset($_POST['name']) and isset($_POST['email']) and isset($_POST['phone'])) 

{
   //setup variables from input    
 $EMAIL = "[email protected]";    
 $inEmail = $_POST['email'];    
 $subject = "Enquiry from ".$POST['name'];   
 $name = $_POST['name'];   

 //setup message    
 $message = "Enquiry from: ".$name."\nEmail: ".$inEmail."\nPhone: ".$phone."\n\nDeparture Date: ".$departureDate."\n\nreturnDate: ".$returnDate;

 $message = wordwrap($message, 70);   


 //email enquiry details to site owner    
 if (mail($EMAIL, $subject, $message))    
 {    
  echo "Enquiry sent!";    
 } else    
 {
  echo "fail!";    
 }
?>

The "Enquiry sent" message does appear.

I have postfix installed and I have also tried with sendmail installed. I have scanned local host using nmap and the smtp port is open.

Can anyone see any reason that the mail does not sent.

Marc B · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-19 16:04:02Z

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Check your mail log (usually /var/log/maillog). It would show the message arriving from PHP, and any delivery attempts/rejection notices from the MX of the receiver.

answered Sep 19, 2010 at 16:04

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Jim Jeffries Over a year ago

I have done this, at first it said there was an error as there was no sender, now it says status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.67.27]:25: Connection timed out)

Marc B Over a year ago

Temporarily suspended is either due to throttling, or google's using grey listing and expecting your server to retry again later. That means your code's working fine and PHP is delivery the mail properly, but something's acting to trigger anti-spam measures.

HoLyVieR · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-19 14:47:44Z

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There a lot of possible reason that could explain why your email is sent and not received. Beside just setting up your SMTP server there are other things you need to do to make sure your email isn't just dropped before it reaches his destination.

You should take a look at this article that explains, what you should check :

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html

In summary you need to :

Make sure the computer sending the email has a Reverse PTR record
Configure DomainKeys Identified Mail in your DNS and code
Set up a SenderID record in your DNS

answered Sep 19, 2010 at 14:47

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Brad · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-19 14:45:47Z

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Assuming that sendmail is working on your system, and that PHP is configured to use it correctly, try adding -f in the additional parameters, like this...

mail($EMAIL, $subject, $message, '[email protected]'

This sets the envelope with a proper from address. See more on the PHP site: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php#92528

answered Sep 19, 2010 at 14:45

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philfreo Over a year ago

+1 for the -f, but you'd want to include the normal additional headers 4th parameter first to include the normal From: address.

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