Debugging PHP Mail() and/or PHPMailer
I'm quite stuck with a problem sending mail from a PHP script. Some data:
- Shared hosting, no SSH access, only hosting provider panel
- PHP version 5.2.5
- Last year I built a site which had no problems sending mail with the same hosting
- Let's say the domain is “domain.com” and my private address is “[email protected]” for anonimity's sake in the following code.
Here's the code:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Hi";
$body = "Test 1\nTest 2\nTest 3";
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
'errors-to: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo("Message successfully sent");
} else {
echo("Message sending failed");
}
require('class.phpmailer.php');
$message = "Hello world";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "Agos");
$mail->SetFrom("[email protected]","My Site");
$mail->Subject = "Test Message";
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->Send();
?>
And here is what I get:
Message sending failed Could not instantiate mail function.
Which is baffling to say the least. Is there anything I can do to get at least some more meaningful errors? Why is code from the class showing up in my file?
Answer
It looks like the class.phpmailer.php file is corrupt. I would download the latest version and try again.
I've always used phpMailer's SMTP feature:
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "localhost";
And if you need debug info:
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only