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emails not being sent

Thread began 4/22/2022 6:29 am by msmoose2400634 | Last modified 4/27/2022 4:30 pm by Ray Borduin | 593 views | 6 replies |

msmoose2400634

emails not being sent

I have a form ContactUs.php and a ContactUs_Sent.php and I used the WA Server Behaviour "Sent Email"; there are 3 fields on the form;emailaddress; subject; messagebody.and a "Sendbutton". The ContactUs.php when the Sendbutton is pressed the system navigates to the correct page; contactus_sent.php; but no email is received. I have a screen copy of the Server Behavioiur. I checked to make sure that all of the files where uploaded to the testing server and I also hardcoded both the "busemail" (which is coming from a recordset)nand the emailadddress in thee Server Behaviour. I also changed the POST to GET; and nothing seems to work.http://mussolinetestserver.site/contact/contactUs.php

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Some email servers will not send emails that aren't FROM a valid email address from that server. Try setting the FROM to an email address like:

webmaster@yourdomain.com (and make sure it is a valid email address).

It could also be that the recordset you are using for the TO address isn't working properly.

I'd try getting it working with a hard coded TO and FROM and then change them to dynamic values one at a time to narrow down the problem.

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msmoose2400634

The from email address is coming from a visitor on the form who is putting their email address is the form. So it can not be an email that is coming from the server. Also I know that the email server does accept this type of email because I have been using it for the last 10 years on the current websites using Dreamweaver and the Dreamweaver toolkit; The recordset is correct as i have checked that it is a valid email. Also did harcode both the from email address and the To email address to trouble shoot before I submitted this post to you.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It still didn't send when you hard-coded the from and to? Even if the email is coming from the person filling out the form, I'd use a local email address for the FROM and use the email address in the form as the REPLY_TO. That would improve deliver-ability.

I'll probably have to debug this one live. Can you send me FTP access?

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msmoose2400634

Okay, I put a "hidden field" in the form which is the business email address coming from a recordset (this is who the email address is going to), and still no email.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Your <form> tag has the action set to: /contact/contactUs_sent.php

That makes the form post directly to that page and doesn't give the email a chance to send.

You need to remove the form action so the page submits to itself and then use the email redirect to go to the sent page.

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msmoose2400634

Thank you Ray, obviously I didn't realize that the server behaviour (Send Email) would navigate to the Email Sent.php page, but now I do. Karen

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