How can I get my website to send an email to someone from my address upon submit?

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websiteI want my website to automatically generate an email to be sent to a customer when they click the submit button.

I have added the following php:

$subject = "Thank You";
$message = "Thank you .........";
$from = "info@mywebsite.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

The variable $email was defined earlier. Also I have edited my php.ini to include the following:

SMTP = smtp.mywebsite.com
smtp_port = 25
username = info@mywebsite.com
password = password
sendmail_from = info@mywebsites.com

Clearly I have not done enough. What more do I need to do?

You've not closed the quotes where you define `$from` - is that a typo in the code you've pasted here? — andrewsi, Oct 22 '12 at 19:53
yes, that is just a typo here - the quotes are present in the actual code. — CTViking, Oct 22 '12 at 20:06
Is your mail server on the same server as the webserver, or is it a different server? I also don't believe PHP by default allows for authenticated mail servers. — ernie, Oct 22 '12 at 20:22
Does your server support mail, I tried doing this ages ago on my Mac in a local Environment before I realised I had to install postfix, the alternative is to try it via php_imap , this however requires the php_imap Extension to be installed. You can read about php_imap here: http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php — Lennart, Oct 22 '12 at 21:37
possible duplicate of [Sending email with PHP from SMTP server](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14456673/sending-email-with-php-from-smtp-server) — Dinuka Thilanga, Apr 10 '14 at 14:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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This question is duplicate with Sending email with PHP from an SMTP server

PHP mail function has some issue with smtp. (It is not support for smtp user name and password) Use 3rd party mail library like Swift mailer, PHPMailer, etc...

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How can I get my website to send an email to someone from my address upon submit?

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