PHP mail() command

[foid025]

Hi. I am trying to automatically have a mail sent to the user when they do certain things on my website, such as signup or write a message to someone. I am using the php mail() command, as shown here:

$to = "[e-mail]"; //accepted user's email
$subject = $user . " has entered your eFamz network";
$message = "the email";
mail($to, $subject, $message);

Though this does not give me an error, I do not receive the email. Might 'mail' be unallowed on my server? Or could it be something else? Thanks!

[mark_79_smith]

Could be because there are no headers included. Goto www.php.net and search for 'mail' in the manual for example codes.

[foid025]

I tried that, checked all the examples there and elsewhere, but it does not seem that headers are necessary for the script to work. :S

[hennety]

Have a look at my post here --> http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10317986

If that doesn't help, check to see if Sendmail is running on your box (I'm assuming you're runnning Sendmail) and have a look at your logs (tail /var/log/maillog) to see if what you are trying to send is being rejected at all. It may be that it's stuck in a queue and for whatever reason hasn't been able to send it.