Cannot send php mail to gmail account

[JEfromCanada]

There appears to be lots of problems using mail() to send to a gmail address.  I've researched the web and can't find a suitable solution.

Can anyone here offer a PHP script that can send from the 50webs.net SMTP server to a gmail account.

Thanks for the help.



Jack

[XYLEM]

Try this :

Code:

<?
$from = "From: You <you@yourdomain.com>";
$to = "you@yourdomain.com";
$subject = "Hi! ";
$body = "TEST";

if(mail($to,$subject,$body,$from)) echo "MAIL - OK";
else echo "MAIL FAILED";
?>

Regards
Gazurkoff

[JEfromCanada]

I'm a bit surprised that this simple solution worked.  Now, I'll ask if you've successfully sent a multi-part message (plain text + HTML) to a gmail address.

I don't need to send attachments, but do need to send plain vs. HTML versions of the mail.

Here is the code I've been using.  It works with all recipients except Gmail.  When sent to GMail users, the message is received, but the contents are not displayed.

Code:

<?php
function send_mail&#40;$emailaddress, $body, $emailsubject, $fromaddress, $fromname, $fileattach = false&#41; 
&#123;

//define the receiver of the email
$to = "$emailaddress";
//define the subject of the email
$subject = "$emailsubject";
//create a boundary string. It must be unique
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5&#40;date&#40;'r', time&#40;&#41;&#41;&#41;;
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From&#58; $fromname<$fromaddress>\r\nReply-To&#58; $fromname<$fromaddress>";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type&#58; multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";

$stripped = strip_tags&#40;str_replace&#40;"<br>", "\r\n", $body&#41;&#41;;
//$stripped = "This is stripped";

//define the body of the message.
ob_start&#40;&#41;; //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo "$random_hash\n"; ?>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<?php echo $stripped; ?>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo "$random_hash\n"; ?>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<?php echo $body; ?>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
return $mail_sent;
}

$resultset = TraverseData();  // This creates the HTML body of the message
send_mail("recipient@gmail.com", $resultset, "Results of reminder check", "sentby@domainregisteredwith50websnet.com", "Sent by string", false)

?>

[XYLEM]

monkey56657 or SawanBanna can help here with this PHP code.

Regards
Gazurkoff

[freshwire]

I'll take a look later once I have more time. Need to lookup on the email structure for multiple content type.

[sawanbanna]

I could get it to show either, however when I tried on multi-part it's working on html

Code:

<?php
function send_mail&#40;$emailaddress, $body, $emailsubject, $fromaddress, $fromname, $fileattach = false&#41;
&#123;

//define the receiver of the email
$to = "$emailaddress";
//define the subject of the email
$subject = "$emailsubject";
//create a boundary string. It must be unique
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5&#40;date&#40;'r', time&#40;&#41;&#41;&#41;;
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From&#58; $fromname<$fromaddress>\r\nReply-To&#58; $fromname<$fromaddress>";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type&#58; multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";

$stripped = strip_tags&#40;str_replace&#40;"<br>", "\r\n", $body&#41;&#41;;
//$stripped = "This is stripped";

//define the body of the message.
ob_start&#40;&#41;; //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo "$random_hash\n"; ?>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<?php echo $stripped; ?>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo "$random_hash\n"; ?>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_----------=_10167391557129230"
MIME-Version: 1.0


<?php echo $body; ?>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
return $mail_sent;
}

$resultset = TraverseData();  // This creates the HTML body of the message
send_mail("recipient@gmail.com", $resultset, "Results of reminder check", "sentby@domainregisteredwith50websnet.com", "Sent by string", false)

?>

also using "quoted-printable" is working instead of "7bit"

[JEfromCanada]

Thanks for taking time to help.  I tried your code, substituting hard-coded HTML for my message content instead of using my "TraverseData()" function.

When I sent the email to my gmail address, it was readable, but only in plain text.  None of the enhanced formatting showed up, and the "A HREF" links were not clickable.