Email form not sending message

Question

I'm trying to set up the contact form of my site. The script uses the template contact_me.php. The relevant excerpt of the form here:

// create email body and send it    
$to = 'jose.alberto.lara@gmail.com'; // PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE
$email_subject = "Contacto con Ecopolíticas:  $name"; // EDIT THE EMAIL SUBJECT LINE HERE
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website's contact form.\n\n"."Here 
are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nEmail: 
$email_address\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: noreply@ecopoliticas.com\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address"; 
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;

When I fill the form it seems to work; however, I don't receive any mail.

Welcome to Stack Overflow! Congratulations, you have formatted the code properly! Unfortunately, you forgot to add the language tag. I think this is PHP, am I right? I've cleaned the question to make it more readable and upvoted to encourage you keeping up the good work. — spongebob, Aug 03 '15 at 17:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '15 at 18:37

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The command:

sudo apt-get install sendgmail

did the work. It was not installed in my server.

answered Aug 04 '15 at 18:37

jalp2000

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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Everything with code is fine. You should know that function mail() won't send mail when it is run by local server. Here is proof: How to send an email using PHP?.

If you want to send mail even with local server you should use phpmailer.

EDIT: Also I think if you install hMailServer it will work on local server.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

Community

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answered Aug 03 '15 at 17:58

Antonio Stipić

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The site is not in a local server, but thank you for the tip. – jalp2000 Aug 04 '15 at 18:30

score -2 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 23 '15 at 13:32

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Remove the dot (.) in:

$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

edited Aug 23 '15 at 13:32

spongebob

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answered Aug 01 '15 at 17:19

Yacer Alkate

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You are right, I removed the dot, yet the problem persists. – jalp2000 Aug 01 '15 at 17:26
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uh. `.=` is perfectly legal PHP. `$x .= 'foo'` is a shortcut for `$x = $x . 'foo'`; – Marc B Aug 04 '15 at 18:39

Email form not sending message

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