php mail() function is not working for sending a simple mail

Question

Now I tried to send mails through php mail function for a application . But the problem is , when I send a mail through this result is given as 'Message has sent' but actually I couldn't get any mails from this .

This is my php code ,

<?php
        $name=$_POST['name'];
        $email=$_POST['email'];
        $phone=$_POST['phone']; 
        $message=$_POST['message'];

        $to='yyyy222@xxx.com';
        $subject='New mail';
        $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
        $headers='From : '.$email."r\n".
                 'Reply-To : '.$email."r\n";
        echo 'Starting send mail';
        echo '<br>';
        $sent=mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
        if(!$sent){
            echo 'There are problems in sending mails  <br>';
        }else{
            echo 'Message has sent';
            echo '<br>';
        }       
        echo 'Mail sent';
        echo '<br>';
   ?>

Today is my first day in learning php . And I would like learn more .

1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8803994/php-mail-not-working-for-some-reason 2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20297703/mail-function-is-not-working-in-php 3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24644436/php-mail-form-doesnt-complete-sending-e-mail Please refer this URLs — test, Jun 24 '15 at 10:14
Are you on a local server? Do you have any mail server installed? — vonUbisch, Jun 24 '15 at 10:23
@Barrier are you running on web server or localhost? PHP `mail()` doesn't work in localhost — Nikko, Jun 24 '15 at 10:23
I would advise you use a reliable library like PHPMailer you will have to do a lot less manual manipulation https://packagist.org/packages/phpmailer/phpmailer — Catharsis, Jun 24 '15 at 10:24
@Barrier well, it would never work. try to use PHPMailer or SwiftMailer. — Nikko, Jun 24 '15 at 10:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '15 at 10:16

1

You're third $headers line is missing the period.

$headers='From : '.$email."r\n".
                 'Reply-To : '.$email."r\n";

This is what you have ^^ - This is what you should have:

$headers .= 'From : '.$email."r\n".
                 'Reply-To : '.$email."r\n";

answered Jun 24 '15 at 10:16

check again your backslash. should be `\r\n` – Nikko Jun 24 '15 at 10:24
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Interestingly if you're using a Postfix mail server it expects the line terminators in the header to be provided in the format native to the OS ... so `PHP_EOL` rather than `\r\n`. – CD001 Jun 24 '15 at 10:28
@socialconquest : Thank you . and now I am trying this again . – Terance Wijesuriya Jun 24 '15 at 10:30

php mail() function is not working for sending a simple mail

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