Email() wont work?

1 
<?php
$to = "electrifiedpete@gmail.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,

How are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
 } else {
  echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
 }
?>

I run it but the Email never arrives and it is not in the spam box either???

2

It is probably being blocked by the server because you haven’t included any headers. The receiving mail server likely thinks that the message is blatant spam, and won’t let it thru.

I had good success looking at the comments in the php.net page for mail() to get some more robust functionality

3

OK thanks!

4

Switch to PEAR mail. Overall just better :smiley:

5

Unless you need to develop in an environment where it is not installed.