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HLA91
post May 5 2007, 09:04 AM
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Hi
I got this script of a tutorial site and I placed it on my site but it seems to work fine apart from it doesn't send the email can anyone help me please.

the contact us page
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Contact Us</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
    
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center">Contact Us</h1>
<h2>We value your opinions!</h2>
<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
  Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
  Message:<br />
  <textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40">
  </textarea><br />
  <input type="submit" />
</form><div id="footer">
    All contents of this site &copy; 2007 Harry Angell&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
;&nbsp;
    <font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"><a href="index.htm">Home</a></font></div>
</body>
</html>

and the sendmail.php script
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<?
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'];

  mail( "praytotherock@hotmail.co.uk", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://harang.freehostia.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

can anyone tell me whats wrong like I said it looks like it is functioning fine but the emails just aren't being sent.

Many thanks
HLA91
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Darin McGrew
post May 5 2007, 11:37 AM
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What happens when you try to use the form? What error messages show up in the logs?
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HLA91
post May 5 2007, 12:01 PM
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there is no error message it works fine apart from the email's aren't being received and ive double checked the address.
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Sieth
post May 22 2007, 08:02 PM
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The whole thing works fine for me, i changed the e-mail to my own and didn't have a problem... message came straight through.

oh i also changed <? to <?php

i've found its good to use <?php just out of habit... just incase.... but yep works fine for me mate.
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