i have yet to work with the mail function in php and don't really have a clue whats going on. i tried this simple script. it outputs message successfully sent, but i get nothing at my gmail account. i'm very sure i missing a few steps??? what should a working script look like?? new to php

Thanks,
Taylor

<?php
$to = "th71852@gmail.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi, How are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}
?>

Even though the header parameter is optional in the mail function, most email services will filter out email that does not specify From: in the headers. Here is the example from php.net:

PHP Code:

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 


ahh, that was simple. that was the problem thanks

Tay,