Topic: PHP mail() not sending emails on mdbgo.io
Expected behavior
- Mail sent successfully with:
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
Actual behavior
Mail not sent at all with:
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);Mail function doesn't seem to work, I followed the code example at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHwPKdfIXMg\
My MDB CLI version is 3.3.0 (3.3.0 is not available to select on the form above) and PHP version is 8.0.6 (I had to publish as 7.4 as 8 is not available)
On my localhost mail IS sent successfully, using Mercury & fake email. But on mdbgo.io it doesn't work and I get no error messages to know what is wrong.
I tried different headers and all kinds of other stuff, please see below for headers:
(UPDATE 2021-05-16 14:25: I installed PHPMailer and got it to work with Gmail's SMTP service. Settings: Host:smtp.gmail.com, SMTPSecure: ssl, Port: 465 & SMTPAuth: true. On my Gmail account, I had to enable Two-step verification and create an App password which I then plugged in as my gmail account password for the credentials.)
I'm happy with this but if you guys have another way I can send emails using your server please let me know. Thanks!
Resources (screenshots, code snippets etc.)
<?php
require_once 'connection.inc.php';
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$body = $_POST['body'];
// Tried different versions of this first:
$headers = "From: Newsletter No Reply <noreply@newsletter.mdbgo.io>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: Newsletter <news@newsletter.mdbgo.io>\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset='iso-8859-1'\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
// Tried this:
// $headers = "From: Newsletter No Reply <noreply@newsletter.mdbgo.io>\r\n";
// $headers .= "Reply-To: Newsletter <news@newsletter.mdbgo.io>\r\n";
// $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . PHP_VERSION;
// Tried this:
// $headers = array("From: noreply@newsletter.mdbgo.io",
// "Reply-To: news@newsletter.mdbgo.io",
// "X-Mailer: PHP/" . PHP_VERSION;
// );
// $headers = implode("\r\n", $headers);
// Tried this:
// $headers = "From: noreply@newsletter.mdbgo.io" . "\r\n";
// $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
// $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
// Tried this:
// $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
// $headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
// $headers = implode("\r\n", $headers);
// Lastely tried this:
// $headers = array(
// "From: noreply@newsletter.mdbgo.io",
// "Reply-To: news@newsletter.mdbgo.io",
// "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1",
// "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
// );
// $headers = implode("\r\n", $headers);
// Rest of my code:
$query = "SELECT * from $table";
$result = $dbc->query($query)
or die ("Error querying database... " . $dbc->error);
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_BOTH))
{
$first_name = $row["first_name"];
$last_name = $row["last_name"];
$email = $row["email"];
$message = "Dear $first_name $last_name, \n $body";
if(mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "Email sent to: $email";
}
else {
echo "MESSAGE: Failed to send email to: $email";
}
}
?>
Hi, sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware of this problem and are working on it. Currently, your solution is the only working one. But as I said we are trying to solve it so that mail() could work.
PieterSA free commented 3 years ago
Thank you for your response, I'm looking forward to see it working again!
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