Php mail() failing?

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I was implementing the tutorial-based code and was having no end of difficulty working out why I was not receiving the emails.

So, one thing I tried was to directly call up the email.php file by typing in the full path and it seems that if I do a if (mail(…)) check that it returns a false result suggesting that the mail command failed.

<?php

$email = "noone@nowhere.com";
$name = "no one";
$sentTo = "**mygmailaccount**";
$subject = "test subject";
$headers = "From: " . $name . "<" . $email . ">
";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $email . "
";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $email;
$message = "this is a test";

if (mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
    echo "Message was sent.";
}
else
{
    echo "Message was not sent?!";
}
?>

Each time I call the *email.php *directly, I get the Message was not sent response.

I’ve setup a phpinfo file here, but I’m not sure how to validate any of this.

Different email accounts (which are operating fine) were tried.

I’ve already gone through the forum archives and can not see a solution, so I really could do with some help on this one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.