Mail sending problem

[MaleBuffy]

Hi I have problems sending mail with mail(); in PHP. I dont get errors just the email doesnt arrive at all!

I am on a virtual host running UNIX/APACHE.

How can I go about sending email with SMTP?

Here is my php information:

http://www.symbianopensource.com/info.php

Are settings wrong? What should I tell them to correct?

Thanx

[stolzyboy]

can we see your code you use to generate the emails??

[MaleBuffy]

This is jus the simpliest method.

<?

$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "A random subject";
$message = " A boring message";

mail($to,$subject,$message) or die("Not Send");

?>

However, they told me at the hosting company that I should try referencing SMTP. How can I do that?

The script does not generate any errors....except the "Not Send" text meaning that there are no syntax errors etc.

Thanx

[stolzyboy]

i'm thinking it might need a "from" address for it to send, i believe that is a restriction of the smtp server

[MaleBuffy]

I tried this now with no luck. Like the previous one it works on another host but not on the one I use for my project. This one uses the sendmail directly but does not work too.

<?php
$fd = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t","w");
fputs($fd, "To: [e-mail]\n");
fputs($fd, "From: Me \n");
fputs($fd, "Subject: Test message from my web site\n");
fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP3\n");
fputs($fd, "Testing.\n");
pclose($fd);
?>

How can I go about with this script referencing the SMTP server?

If the smtp server is mail.aserver.com how can I embbed it to my script?

Thanx very much!