timjpriebe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:50:01 +0000

By local, I meant it's at your house or place of business. On the same network (LAN) as your computer. And by remote, I meant it's off somewhere else. It sounds like it's remote.

And you're correct. When it is a remote web host, your ISP has nothing to do with it at all.

paul7252 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:09:33 +0000

Yeah. Thanks for above.
Greg K; tried your script and got 'message accepted' but no mail sent so I must assume my web host doesn't support it. From another source I have discovered that
just because your web host is php ennabled it doesn't mean they allow you to send email.
Timjpriebe; must show my ignorance and confess I don't know the difference between
a local or remote web server. To me they are just a web host.
As for your ISP not allowing any mail to be sent other than from themselves, I didn't
think it had anything to do with them. I thought it was sent directly from your web host when it comes from a form on your website.
thanks again

Paul

timjpriebe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:47:24 +0000

And remember with Greg's script, just because it says "Message accepted." doesn't mean it's working. That would mean that there is nothing wrong with the script itself, though.

Greg K — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:07:51 +0000

See if you can do a very basic e-mail, try:

<?php
  $to = \"me@domain.com\";  // Change this to your e-mail address
  $subject = \"Test Messsage\";
  $body = \"This is the body of the e-mail.\";
  
  if (mail($to,$subject,$body))
     echo \"Message accepted.\n\";
  else
     echo \"Message rejected.\n\";
 
?>

For more information, see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

-Greg

timjpriebe — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:35:45 +0000

Are you running the script on a local server or a remote web server?

I know PHP emails don't work on my local test server because my ISP won't let any servers but their own send outgoing email.

Maxwell — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:12:44 +0000

Make sure that what/whoever is hosting you has PHP enabled and is configured correctly.

(PHP mail vars)