Mail Funtion

[digiwired]

hi, on my Apache 2.0 and PHP version 4.2.3, i use the mail funtion to send mail (obviously) but i just can't get it to work, it returns true but a warning message comes up and the mail isn't sent!! plz help....
here is the code...

<%php
$from = "[e-mail]" ;

$to = "[e-mail]";

/* but i put a proper email address is the actual code*/

$subject = "hello";

$body = "testing 1 2 3";

$result = mail($to, $subject, $body, $from);

if ($result = true) {
echo "YES";
}else{
echo "no";
}
?>

and here is the error message:

Warning: Failed to Receive in C:\apache\apache\htdocs\emailValidation.php on line 12

[sgoku01]

Yeah, it's returning true, because you don't check if it's true or false!
Your checking code should be:

if ( $result == TRUE )

A single = is uses for setting vars...

[digiwired]

thanks, now it is returning false, but do you know what could be the problem with the mail funtion....could it be that the smtp server has not been setup properly??