Problems with mail() sending to external emails

[stephen]

I recently moved to a new host which ended up breaking all my pages that use the mail() function. It seems to be fine when sending to any email hosted within their network but any email hosted elsewhere is lost with no errors given. I have contacted them and have been working on this for 2 days now but they have yet to fix this. I'm also convinced that it's not a coding problem because the identical page works on other servers.

if ($send == "yes") 
{
	$subject = "General Comments";
	$from = "From: $email";
	$mail = "$realname has sent the following message:\n\n$comments";
	if (mail ($recipient, $subject, $mail, $from))
		$email_msg = "Email has been sent to $recipient<br /><br />";
	else
		$email_msg = "Email could not be sent<br /><br />";
}

I did some searching over the past few days as well to try and get this working. This page here on phpbuilder sounded exactly what is wrong but they didn't respond when I sent them the link.

Has anybody else had this problem?

[pointsplat]

I actually setup my own mail server before in order to get my mail function to work as the server that I bounced through before quit accepting relays.

This sounds to me having gone through configuring PHP to mail stuff that it is your servers problem. This could be because their mailer program is not setup to allow outgoing messages from whatever email address you are sending it from or another configuration error.

Most mail servers I would think are setup to check only domain so try sending an email from [e-mail] If this does not work and you have an email account setup through the server you should obviously try using that as the sender. If still unsuccessful bitch at them and tell them that you must be able to send an email from such and such a username.

[stephen]

I have tried many different emails (domains) and the only time it works is if the recipent is hosted with them (It can be a different domain as long as they are hosting it)

I have also tried a number of emails in the from address and the same effect happens.

[pointsplat]

If that is the case I would definately talk to them and ask them to check out their mail server they have configured to work with PHP. If you can ask to talk to someone specfically involved with mantaining the server, this will save you alot of running around and unanswered responses.