Unable to send mails with php mail function

Question

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $contact = $_POST['num'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $ToEmail = 'info@kesems.com';
    $EmailSubject = 'School Enquiry';
    $mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
    $mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
    $mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
    $MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."\r\n";
    $MESSAGE_BODY = "Phone: ".$_POST["num"]."\r\n";
    $MESSAGE_BODY .= "Email: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
    $MESSAGE_BODY .= "Message: ".nl2br($_POST["message"])."\r\n";
    mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");
    header('Location:contact-us.php');
}
?>

contact-us.php

<form role="form" action="contact-us.php" id="main-contact-form" class="contact-form" name="contact-form" method="post">
    <div class="row ml0">
        <div class="form-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" required="required" placeholder="Name">
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="num" required="required" placeholder="Contact number">
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="email" required="required" placeholder="Email address">
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <textarea name="message" id="message" required="required" name="message" class="form-control" rows="3" placeholder="Any Queries/suggestions" style="resize:none"></textarea>
        </div>
        <div class="form-group">
            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg"/>
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

Simple script that sends email headers...still not working.

is code is correct?

any particular solution for this? any particular solution for this? thank you in advance.

I'm not putting in an answer for this, useless. Here, you've a missing concatenate for `$MESSAGE_BODY = "Phone: ".$_POST["num"]."\r\n";`. Debug your code with error reporting. — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 28 '14 at 12:37
yes on server. I'm a beginner in this case. can you help me out, how can I configure that? — Chinmay Joshi, Nov 28 '14 at 12:37
@Fred-ii- But still the mail can be sent. @Chinmay can you put a debug message after `if(isset($_POST['submit']))`? — , Nov 28 '14 at 12:38
This `$MESSAGE_BODY = "Phone: ".$_POST["num"]."\r\n";` is supposed to be `$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Phone: ".$_POST["num"]."\r\n";` @PHPWeblineindia that's why the headers are broken. — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 28 '14 at 12:42
@Fred-ii- That is fine, but my point is: you can send anything in mail. Thus, no matter what the body is, the mail should have been sent. — , Nov 28 '14 at 12:44
@PHPWeblineindia OP's going to have to check for errors then. I see questions about forms everyday; 99% of the time, is because people either don't bother checking for errors, or don't know how to debug code. — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 28 '14 at 12:46
@ChinmayJoshi make your error report on. And put debug point before mail function. What does it say? — , Nov 28 '14 at 12:48
Add error reporting to the top of your file(s) right after your opening ` — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 28 '14 at 12:50
**1)** Has your mail server been started? **2)** Have you looked at the `maillog`? — ʰᵈˑ, Nov 28 '14 at 12:55
Not answer to you question, but you also might improve your form using `` for email and `` for the contact number. See [link](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input) — John, Nov 28 '14 at 12:55
Isnt the problem simply youre mailing to: `$ToEmail = 'info@example.com';` instead of `$_POST['email'];` ? — John, Nov 28 '14 at 13:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '14 at 12:58

Try this it worked for me

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set

                $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
                $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
                $headers .= "From: yourmail@gmail.com" . "\r\n" .
                        "Reply-To: no-reply@gmail.com" . "\r\n" .
                        "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
                $to = "tomail@gmail.com";
                $subject = "This is subject";
                $from = "yourmail@gmail.com";//optional
                $message = ' this is my message hello';
                if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, 'ADMIN')) {
                 echo "mail sent"
                 }
              else{
               echo "error cannot send mail";
              }

Edit your answer then, it does not include what you wrote in your comment. — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 28 '14 at 13:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '14 at 13:11

Check whether all the arguments are actually set (using ternary), just because the submit is set does not mean that all the arguments are set:

$name = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : "";
$contact = isset($_POST['num']) ? $_POST['num'] : "";
$email = isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : "";
$message = isset($_POST['message']) ? $_POST['message'] : "";

Check these values and make a condition that you display some error if something is not set.

If you're certain the values are set then you need to change

$ToEmail = 'info@example.com';

to

$ToEmail = $email;

Otherwise nothing's going to happen.

Finally, I recommend identifying your html inputs with a proper id, instead of a name.

Unrelated to the error but yet important to you

Like already pointed out by @Fred -ii-, a proper concatenation (.=) is required instead of overwriting (=) in the second header assignment of $MESSAGE_BODY:

MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY = "Phone: ".$_POST["num"]."\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Email: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Message: ".nl2br($_POST["message"])."\r\n";

Should be:

$MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Phone: ".$_POST["num"]."\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Email: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Message: ".nl2br($_POST["message"])."\r\n";

Unable to send mails with php mail function

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