PHP Mailer Help

system · August 10, 2015, 10:31pm

Here’s the situation: I have a contact form that uses a PHP Mailer to send messages to a [email protected] address. This [email protected] address forwards all messages to my business address.

I have 4 fields users enter information in: Name, Email, Subject, Message

Here’s the issue: users who enter Gmail addresses into the Email part of the form can not send a message to me. All other email address domains work perfectly. Just not Gmail. I am not sure how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated ;D Here is my code:

[php]

<?php require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php'; $host = 'host'; $username = 'address'; $password = 'password'; $send = false; // Subject $subject = addslashes(strip_tags($_POST['subject'])); // Name $name = addslashes(strip_tags($_POST['name'])); // Email $email = addslashes(strip_tags($_POST['email'])); // Message $message = addslashes(strip_tags($_POST['message'])); // Services $services = ''; if ( isset($_POST['services']) AND count($_POST['services']) > 0) { $index = 1; foreach ( $_POST['services'] as $val) { $services .= ( $index == count($_POST['services'])) ? $val : $val . ', '; $index++; } } else { $services .= '-'; } // Project Class if ( isset($_POST['project_class']) AND $_POST['project_class'] <> '') { $project_class = addslashes(strip_tags($_POST['project_class'])); } else { $project_class = '-'; } $htmlmessage = <<<MESSAGE $subject

Name: $name

Email: $email

Message: $message

Services: $services

Project Class: $project_class

MESSAGE; $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->isSMTP(); $mail->Host = $host; $mail->Username = $username; $mail->Password = $password; $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // sets the prefix to the servier (ssl / tls) $mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the dreamhost email server $mail->IsHTML(TRUE); $mail->From = $email; $mail->FromName = $name; // Add receive email address $mail->addAddress($username); $mail->isHTML(true); $mail->Subject = $subject; $mail->Body = $htmlmessage; // Send the message, check for errors if ( $mail->send()) { $send = true; } echo json_encode($send); [/php]

Stevo · August 11, 2015, 12:15am

UPDATE:

Also, yahoo addresses do not work. So its gmail and yahoo.

astonecipher · August 11, 2015, 2:58am

It sounds like a spam issue honestly. Why are you using addslashes()? It is not going to a database, not that you should be using that function anyways. It also appears you are missing these portions of the code:

[php]
$mail->SetFrom(‘[email protected]’, ‘First Last’);
$mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]",“First Last”);[/php]

Without them, some spam filters auto block them before they allow them to the server.

Stevo · August 11, 2015, 5:13am

I’ve added the SetFrom and the AddReplyToo lines, but gmail or yahoo still doesnt work in the email field of the contact form.

Strider64 · August 11, 2015, 11:36am

I’m going to guess it has something to do with the following:
[php]$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the dreamhost email server[/php]

I don’t think gmail or yahoo uses that port? (I could be wrong, for this is only guess).

What I do is use $mail->isSendMail() instead of $mail->isSmtp(), I find it more reliable (in most cases).
[php] if (filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, ‘SERVER_NAME’, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL) == “localhost”) {
$this->mail->isSmtp(); // Local Host:
$this->mail->Port = EMAIL_PORT; // Local Host Port: (Usually 587)
} else {
$this->mail->isSendMail(); // Remote Host:
}[/php]

astonecipher · August 11, 2015, 11:45am

I want to say he’s using a dreamhost mail server, but I don’t see it anymore.
At his is coming to you, correct? Have you checked you spam folders?