OK, Thanks. I installed sendmail on my local machine and got it to work. However, when I send it to my gmail account, it goes into spam. This is probably due to the reason Chris enumerated.
Peter On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Chris Snyder <chsny...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Peter Lehrer <pleh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to get the php mail function to work. I have a website >> running Apache2 and PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze8 on Debian. I tried to >> get a test email message working. Here is my code: >> >> <?php >> $to = "pleh...@gmail.com"; >> $subject = "Test mail"; >> $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message."; >> $from = "pleh...@me.outlook.com"; >> $headers = "From:" . $from; >> mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); >> echo "Mail Sent."; >> ?> >> >> Can anybody help me? >> > > Best way to debug mailing issues is to view the mail log and see if > there are any clues as to what went wrong. On Debian, it is at > /var/log/mail.log > > Very often mail problems have to do with anti-spam controls in > receiving systems. Most big email companies will only accept mail from > servers with a reverse-DNS record that maps the IP address to a real > name. Also, you may be running up against SPF records created by > outlook.com that prevent forging mail from that address. > > One thing I notice in your script is a missing space after the colon in > "From:". > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
