PHP - Send email from users address

Asked Aug 30 '16 at 13:32

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I have a form on my website where users can type a message and their email, and it will be sent to my address. I have installed PHPMailer for another task, but I am using PHP's built in mail() function because I thought it would work better as it's only a simple task.

However, it does not seem to be working - emails are not sent. Here is my code:

$to = "myemail@gmail.com";
$subject = "Email from " . $_POST["name"];
$txt = $_POST["message"];
$headers = "From: " . $_POST["email"];

if (mail($to, $subject, $txt, $headers)) {
    // Success
} else {
    // Failed
}

Everything is posted correctly, it's just the mail() function that returns false. Why is this happening? Should I use PHPMailer instead?

edited Aug 30 '16 at 13:37

Funk Forty Niner

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Did you check your SMTP Authentication ? – Dharmendra Aug 30 '16 at 13:34
hard to say if the form's ok. if it returned false then something failed. http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php yet, using error reporting will be useless if your form's method doesn't use "post" and with POST arrays, strangely enough. – Funk Forty Niner Aug 30 '16 at 13:36
GMail is going to reject mails with fake From: addresses anyway. – mario Aug 30 '16 at 13:38
Alex, what do you mean? – user2397282 Aug 30 '16 at 13:38

PHP - Send email from users address

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