mail() problem

[kaen]

if (!$_POST[name] ||!$_POST[grade] || !$_POST[email] || !$_POST[title] || !$_POST[subject] || 

!$_POST[comments])
{
echo "<BR><BR><b><i>**You did not fill in all the required fields. Remember, your name is 

required even if you are anonymous.</i></b>";

} else {



if(!eregi('^([._a-z0-9-]+[._a-z0-9-]*)@(([a-z0-9-]+\.)*([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z]{2,3})?)$', 

$email)) 
{
	echo '<BR><br>Your email does not look like a valid email.'; } else {
	if ($_POST[anony] == 2)
	{
	$msg = "PLEASE MAKE MY SUBMISSION ANONYMOUS.";
	}

$msg .= "

$_POST[comments]";

echo "<BR><BR>Thank you, $_POST[name], for your submission!<BR>Your work has been 

sent to the Literary and Arts Magazine.";

$recipent = "[e-mail]";
$title = "Submission: $_POST[title]";

echo "Recipent: $recipent<BR> Title: '$title'<br>
Message: $msg<Br>Email: $_POST[email]";
mail($recipent, $title, $msg, "From: $_POST[name]<$_POST[email]>");



}

is there any immediate reason you see why this mail function does not work? It just doesn't show up in my inbox!

[devinemke]

are you running this code on a machine with a valid SMTP server? why don't you strip your code down to a very simple test:

<?
$mail = mail('[e-mail]', 'test', 'test');
if ($mail) {echo 'mail send OK';}
else {echo 'mail send FAIL';}
?>

[kaen]

Mine failed! Before it was able to do it =\, but the people must have done something to the server. What can I do to fix it?