help regarding mail function

[greedyisg00d]

I am using this format for sending email and it works fine

$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "[e-mail]";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
 

Since I want in the FROM to display the name and not the email address I change the $from to:

$from = "Site Admin <[e-mail]>";

But the problem is the email is not send. Any idea what seems to be the problem?

Btw I am using Mercury server.

Thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Does mail() return false? Does the Mercury mail server have SMTP logs that you could check to see if the message was being rejected due to spam or something of that nature?