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php Mail script does not work

Posted on March 6, 2014

Sir,

The php mail script doesn’t work while i am host server. That script i have already work in linux server that time it’s work but here doesn’t work. I have mentioned below what i have done in mail script in php. $to = ‘fletcherram@gmail.com’; $subject = ‘Contact Form Submitted.’; $body = "Name: “working”; $email=‘karthikeyan025@hotmail.com’;

$mailchk = mail($to, $subject, $body, $email); if($mailchk) {

	echo "<script> alert('Activated Successfully. Kindly Check your Mail');</script>";
}
   else{
   	echo "<script> alert('error');</script>";

   }

can you help me…



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