sending a darn email

[chancho]

I am trying to implement the mail function;

Here's the SMTP directive in the php.ini file:
SMTP = smtp.west.cox.net
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

Here's my code:

$to = $compEmail;
$subject = 'Jobs on the Road email verification';
$message = 'test';

if ( @mail( $to, $subject, $message,
"To: $compContact <$compEmail>\n" .
"From: [e-mail]\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" ) )
{
// email sent successfully
header ( 'Location: ../verify/emailVerification.php?sts=1' );
}
else
{
// email could not be sent
header ( 'Location: ../verify/emailVerification.php?sts=0' );
}

I am being sent to the page that is a result of an unsuccessful attempt. Can anyone see any problems with my code, is there something that I am missing???? Thanks for any help or light that you could shed on my frustrating problem.

[hand]

Please remove the "@" for displaying some errors and try again:

if (mail($to, $subject, $message,
"To: $compContact <$compEmail>\n" . 
"From: [email][e-mail][/email]\n" . 
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . 
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1")) { 
	print "SENT!";
} else { 
	print "FAILED!";
} 

[chancho]

Warning: Failed to Connect in c:\apache\htdocs\jotr\scripts\processcompsignup.php on line 43
NOT Sent

Line 43:
if ( mail( $to, $subject, $message ) ) { print 'Sent'; }
else { print 'NOT Sent'; }

So I imagine that this has something to do with the SMTP server. I am using my ISP's. I am running Apache on a Windows machine, is there a mail server that I could setup???

[chancho]

I tried both my ISP smtp.west.cox.net and my personal webhosting company www.qecept.com for my SMTP settings in the php.ini file. Neither work, is it that both not permit this or am I doing something wrong.