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cannot receive email using mail() function in PHP. tried many things but nothing working

Posted on April 25, 2014

I am just making a very simple use of mail () function but it is also not working. the value of function is returning true. I can receive mail on my email if i upload this file to another server but when I use it on my droplet it don’t works.

my code is

<?php $to=“contact@xyz.com”; $subject=“subject”; $mail_body=“Dear sir, message”; $from=“myemail@mydomain.x”;

if (mail ($to,$subject,$mail_body,$from))

{ echo ‘mail delivered successfully’; } else { echo ‘problem delivering mail’; }

?>

it is working on other website as I had tried it. but not working on digital ocean droplet so someone please help me our sorting this problem.



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Or actually on centos yum install sendmail

<br> $to=“contact@xyz.com”; <br> $subject=“subject”; <br> $mail_body=“Dear sir, <br> message”; <br> $from=“myemail@mydomain.x”; <br>
<br> if (mail ($to,$subject,$mail_body,$from)) <br> { <br> echo ‘mail delivered successfully’; <br> } <br> else <br> { <br> echo ‘problem delivering mail’; <br> }

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8803994/php-mail-not-working-for-some-reason <br> <br>Try installing sendmail. If you are on Ubuntu ‘sudo apt-get install sendmail’ <br> <br>PHPMailer with a gmail account is more likely to work consistently though. http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=examplebgmail

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