Question

I am trying to send out an email when a form is sent and nothing is happening. I am using winHost as a provider. I have tried making a seperate .php file to just test the mail() function but no cigar –
mail('myemail','dfd','dsaf','dasfda');

Here is my set up for mailing –

    $to = $agentemail;
$subject = "";
$message = "";
$from = "";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

Please let me know if you need anymore info.

Answer 1

As @alfasin has pointed out, you need to follow the example code on the first link he gave to the WinHost Knowledge Base:

You’ll need to replace the host and username with details of an actual email account you’ve got setup.

<?php 
require_once "Mail.php"; 
$from = "Sender <[e-mail]>"; 
$to = "Recipient <[e-mail]>"; 
$subject = "This is a test email sent via php"; 
$body = "This is a test email"; 

$host = "mail.HostingAccountDomain.com"; 
$username = "[e-mail]"; 
$password = "email_password"; 

$headers = array ('From' => $from, 
                  'To' => $to, 
                  'Subject' => $subject); 

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', 
                      array ('host' => $host, 
                             'auth' => true, 
                             'username' => $username, 
                             'password' => $password)
                      ); 
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body); 
?>