Nothing happens when attemping mail()

[Gibb]

Howdy all, I'm trying to determine why my forgot password script doesnt do anything when i'm trying to send the email.

mail ($email, 'Subject Line', $body, 'From: webmaster@example.com'); 

I get no errors returned at all, and everything seems to have ran ok (my echo's all show valid data before i use the mail function), but no email ever gets sent.

Everything seems fine in my servers PHP settings

sendmail_from me@localhost.com
sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
SMTP localhost
smtp_port 25

The sendmail function is located there, cause i've checked that to be sure.

Anybody have any idea what could cause this?

[jinkas]

have whoever you are sending the e-mail to check their junk e-mail folders...oftentimes when the proper headers aren't sent (as in this case) there's a strong chance that the e-mail will get treated as spam

also, to make sure that the function is working you can try

if (mail($email, 'Subject Line', $body, 'From: webmaster@example.com')) {
   echo 'Mail sent!';
}
else {
   echo 'There was an error while sending the e-mail.';
} 

[Gibb]

I've tried code such as what you posted and the 'Mail sent!' message is displayed. I've also talked to the company IT guy and he says that no emails were treated as spam for the entire day.

Is there any way to grab errors from the sendmail program? PHP is not seeing anything so i dont think there are any problems with the php code.

[vinyl-junkie]

Try sending the mail to yourself to verify that it works. Also, have a look at the php.net documentation. Perhaps you'll find something there which will help.

[Gibb]

yay! ok It wont send to my company's email, or my website's email (both never show up) but it worked for my gmail account.

My company does have a spam catching thing, but the IT guy said he didnt find any emails like i described. My website's email has absolutely no spam protection so i dont know what could cause that.

Judging from this post in the PHP Manual section for Mail:

nes at techie dot com
26-Sep-2003 10:36 
I've noticed some anti-spam email programs also deny delivery to mail that doesn't have a Message-ID.  Even though it is legal to do so, many domains will consider the email spam and drop it.  

Using sendmail on a win2k server, there is no Message-ID on some test mailings I've done.  The ones that are added were there due to the filtering software added it afterwards, at least that's what the spamheaders error code database says.

this sounds like it could possibly be my problem, but i havent seen anybody having this problem on sitepoint.

Anybody know what else could be wrong, or how i could add a message-id to my emails?