PHP mail is not sending email to my email address

Question

I've been looking around everywhere and cannot seem to find how to make this work - it is simply not sending an email to my address. Here is my HTML form:

<form id="contactMe" name="contact" method="post" novalidate="novalidate">
    <fieldset>
        <label for="name" id="name">Name<span class="required">*</span></label>
            <input type="text" name="name" id="name" size="30" value="" required="">
            <label for="email" id="email">Email<span class="required">*</span></label>
            <input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="30" value="" required="">
            <label for="phone" id="phone">Phone</label>
            <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" size="30" value="">
            <label for="Message" id="message">Message<span class="required">*</span></label>
            <textarea name="message" id="message" required=""></textarea>
            <label for="Answer" id="answer">Name the house pet that says “<i>woof</i>“<span class="required">*</span></label>
            <input type="text" name="answer" value="" required=""></br>
            <input id="submit" type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
        </fieldset>
        <div id="success">
            <span class="green textcenter">
            <p>Your message was sent successfully! I will be in touch as soon as I can.</p>
            </span>
        </div> <!-- closes success div -->
        <div id="error">
            <span><p>Something went wrong, try refreshing and submitting the form again.</p></span>
        </div> <!--close error div-->
    </form>

and here is my PHP saved as mailer.php:

<?php

    $to = "someone@gmail.com";
    $from = $_REQUEST['email'];
    $name = $_REQUEST['name'];
    $headers = "From: $from";
    $subject = "You have a message from your.";

    $fields = array();
    $fields{"name"} = "name";
    $fields{"email"} = "email";
    $fields{"phone"} = "phone";
    $fields{"message"} = "message";

    $body = "Here is what was sent:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){   $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); }

    mail("maytee.kneitz@gmail.com",$subject,$message,"From: $from\n");
    echo 'Mail sent';

?>

This is my first shot at working on a mailer / contact form, so sorry if it's a blatant problem. I just can't seem to find it. Any guidance would be appreciated.

I do have validation in my scripts (not posted here).

and are you sure you're not being seen as spam or being stopped by the outgoing server since you're trying to send mail from a different server than your from header? (sending From: someone@some-other-domain.com) You may want to change that to reply-to and omit from or change from to something like do-not-reply@your-domain.com ... or use something like swift mailer since it is already superior to hand made.http://swiftmailer.org/ — Kai Qing, May 30 '14 at 23:53
I checked my spam and its not in there. I'm using dreamhost as my hosting service and have tried routing it to several email addresses and it just won't go. — user3693134, May 30 '14 at 23:56
Do you know that your `$_REQUEST` array has an email and name key and that they are correct? — David Corbin, May 30 '14 at 23:58
@user3693134 have a read of http://www.damonkohler.com/2008/12/email-injection.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055460/how-to-sanitze-user-input-in-php-before-mailing unless you want spammers pawning your server — Lawrence Cherone, May 30 '14 at 23:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '14 at 23:56

You don't have a form action defined. Try this:

<form id="contactMe" name="contact" method="post" action="mailer.php" novalidate="novalidate">

By default, the form will be submitted to its current location unless otherwise specified. In your case, point it to wherever your mail script is located

PHP mail is not sending email to my email address

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