mail() not working with all emails

[matthewzammit]

hi,

I'm new to PHP.

I have a form on a website which sends me back an email with the details entered in by the user...

The problem is that when i change my email to a yahoo or to my isp email or to spymac.com, the emails dont get delivered.

why is it that this form sends email only to hotmail...

this is the code:

<?
mail( "[e-mail]", "TF Messages",

"Message
\n\n From :".$POST['name'].
"\n Email: ".$POST['email'].

    "\n\n\n Message:		
	\n" .$_POST['message']);


 header("Location: [url]http://www.yfellowship.org/teenfellowship/forms/contact_us/msgsubmitted.html[/url]");

?>

thanks a lot

[georgeb]

my first thought would be that you're messages are probably being blocked by spam filters because you don't have a valid "From" address in your mail call.

function prototype:
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

so your call should be:
mail( "[e-mail]", "TF Messages",
"Message
\n\n From :".$POST['name'].
"\n Email: ".$POST['email'].

"\n\n\n Message:
\n" .$_POST['message'],
"From: [e-mail]");

hope that helps!

[matthewzammit]

I've tried doing that.

some messages were received when i set the mailling address to a Yahoo! mailbox >> mail ("[e-mail]"). but these messages arrived only after about 10 hours!! quite some delay!!

no messages arrived to the Spymac email though