Sending Email to my gmail account

Question

I am able to send emails from my Mercury mail server to my Gmail account, but when I try to it using the mail() function in PHP, it doesn't work! Why?

<?php
if(mail('XYZ@gmail.com','NICE','OK'))
{
echo "success";
}
?>

It shows "Success" in my browser but there's no mail in my mailbox.

Answer 1

You cannot debug issues like this without having access to the logfile of the mail server you are using to send your email.

However, if it's a machine connected via dialup (ie one that is not in a datacenter) you are very unlikely to be able to send any emails to the big email providers as they are going to block your emails - usually only spam comes from MTAs running on dialup hosts.

Answer 2

have you check your spam filters? or is your mail server setup on php.ini? did u setup smtp authentication? documented by this: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/mail.setup.php

Answer 3

I had this same problem. It turned out that my smart-relay was missing in the mail configuration.