Testing mail()

PHP
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I’m trying to test if mail() is working

     if (mail("info@ronisfineart.com", $subject, $message, $from)) {
	echo "Thank you for filling out our form, please be patient and expect a response soon.";
} else {
	echo "Error!";
}

Is this correct

2

Yup.

3

The mail function typically doesn’t work if you’re on a local environment like xamp. The best thing to use is a library like Swiftmailer that provides alternative methods like smtp. Another solution is to set-up something like mailcatcher to mock mailing with mail() on a local environment that doesn’t have an email server on it (most). Otherwise the only realy way to test is a on a dev server or production (god forbid).

4

XAMPP has its own built in functionality to emulate mail() that saves the emails in files.

5

thanks

6

News to me I haven’t used xampp in several years. The last time I used it mail didn’t work.

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mail doesn’t work to send emails - there is a facility that generates files containing the email content that allows you to test that the emails are generating correctly without actually sending any emails.

I found this a couple of years ago when I upgraded XAMPP. To the best of my knowledge the version I was using before that didn’t have it.

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