PHP mail(). Why does this fails????

[crop]

Hello

I've been trying (desperately now) to send an email from an Apache 2.0, Linux redhat, PHP 4.2 server and it fails, constantly.
The inicial idea was to send a form to an email (and it worked on my server but with this one the same script fails - I don't get any e-mail at all).

Maybe there's something wrong with the code or maybe someone can help me redirecting the script in order to find something or get something, somewhere, somehow.
I've even got phpinfo from the server but I'm new to php and don't understand it quite well.

Here's the code. If someone could help......

<?php
mail("[e-mail]","Testando","teste","From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\nReply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

This doesn't give any errors but I don't get anything in my e-mail (but it works on the testing server).

One more thing: The TO email is not on the same server as the script. Does it matter? Can I go around it?

Thanks for any help.

Suffering

Crop:queasy:

[Davy]

I had the same problem.

mail() is a pain for me. Constant headaches!

But then I looked in my junk mail folder and there they were - 26 emails from '[e-mail]' 😛

Tried looking in your junk mail?

[gufmn]

Try replacing $SERVER_NAME with $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']

[crop]

Hi gufmn and Davy,

The change you suggested gufmn gave me an parsing error.
The problem with junk mail you suggested Davy, is not an option since my webmail (the one I use for testing too) as the junk mail filter inactive ( but an interesting tip).

Even if I use a simpler code:

<?
mail("[e-mail]","Testing","This is a test");
?>

it doesn't work.
Is there any way round this problem? Can I send e-mails using other function or having some sort of code that can collects input from the server to try and skip any server problems?

I believe the problem is in there, somewhere.

Thanks

[crop]

I've just had an e-mail sent. I can't believe it.

I have a theory about this, since it was sent but it was sent from within the server to an e-mail located in the same server. I figure this server doesn't allow (or isn't configured to) sending mails to outside servers e-mails. Is this possible? In a future situation, is there a way to override it?

Thanks for the help

[Gibb_Boy]

I dont have a solution but i'm having the exact same problem (for the most part).

I have a forgot password script that i've tested with 3 different email addresses that i can check. It ONLY works with my gmail account, but the emails never show up for the other 2. One of the other ones has a spam filter, but my office IT says he hasnt seen any of the emails, and the other email address has no spam filtering at all. I'm also using mail() with no luck. Please somebody help us out!