mail() is not working in php

Question

I am using mail() function to sent mails when an event happening. But it is not working as I expected. I tried to get the return of the function also. Some one please suggst what may be the issue.

        $msg = "Your password has been changed.is'".$data['password']."'";
        $to = $data['email'];
        $subject = "password changed";
        $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
        $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
        $headers .= 'From: info@hia.com'; 
        $send = mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
        if($send){
            echo "successful";
        }
        else{
            echo "error";
        }

Change `echo "error";` to `var_dump(error_get_last());` and see what it outputs. — Styphon, Jun 27 '16 at 10:30
Sure. let me try and will let you know. thanks for your valid reply. — jumban, Jun 27 '16 at 10:33
@Styphon array(4) { ["type"]=> int(2) ["message"]=> string(164) "mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()" ["file"]=> string(39) " — jumban, Jun 27 '16 at 10:36
@jumban from the error apparently you're connecting to your localhost. Does your server has smtp set-up? — MuthaFury, Jun 27 '16 at 10:37
@Jumban your local server doesn't have mail available or configured correctly. Contact your host. — Styphon, Jun 27 '16 at 10:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · 2016-06-27T11:33:56.080

Don't use simple mail(), i prefer for PHPmailer function. Here is a Example. First - download phpmailer in your project directory. second - create send_mail.php in your directory(you can change you name).

send_mail.php file code.

require_once "PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php";

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
if (!isset($_POST['send'])) {
//This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form.
echo "error; you need to submit the enquiry form!";
die;
}
    $to="abc@xyz.com";
    $senderName = "xyz";
    //send the mail
    $fname = $_POST["fname"];
    $lname = $_POST["lname"];
    $zcode = $_POST["zcode"];
    $email = $_POST["email"];
    $phone = $_POST["phone"];
    //Enable SMTP debugging.
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
    //Set PHPMailer to use SMTP.
    $mail->isSMTP();
    //Set SMTP host name
    $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
    //Set this to true if SMTP host requires authentication to send email
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    //Provide username and password
    $mail->Username = "abc@xyz.com";
    $mail->Password = "########";
    //If SMTP requires TLS encryption then set it
    $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
    //Set TCP port to connect to
    $mail->Port = 465;
    $mail->From = $to;
    $mail->FromName = $senderName;
    $mail->addAddress($to, $senderName);
    $mail->addReplyTo($email, $name);
    $mail->isHTML(true);
    $mail->Subject = "bfuiebfiaif";
    $mail->Body = "as per your needs";
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
die;
}
header('Location: index.php');
die;

#chiragpatel simply dont copy from online..give required answer — , Jun 27 '16 at 10:48
#Ashu - i am just giving proper answer with example.. thats it. — , Jun 27 '16 at 10:50
[link](http://crazynhappy.com/sending-email-php-phpmailer-function/) Complete Guide for phpmailer. — , Jun 28 '16 at 06:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '16 at 10:42

Problems arising from the php setting. Closing function for security by some service provider. You must send mail with SMTP.

Example several SMTP class on github; hujuice/smtp - snipworks/php-smtp - PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Example code a PHPMailer according to your code;

<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'info@hia.com';                 // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'yourmailpassword';                           // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

$mail->setFrom('info@hia.com', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress($data['email']);               // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info@hia.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc@hia.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc@hia.com');
$mail->CharSet = 'ISO-8859-1';
$mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = 'password changed';
$mail->Body    = 'Your password has been changed.is "'.$data['password'].'"';

if(!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'error';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'successful';
}

mail() is not working in php

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