mail() function doesnt give any error

i have a problem in sending mail
i installed easy SMTP server
and i have apache server 1.3.27
from devshed
when i run this code no error
appears and the mail was not sent
it appears a white page
when i comment the two ini_set()
functions as appeared
else it says failt o send the email
,any help???

<?php
//ini_set("SMTP","localhost");
//ini_set("sendmail_from","funnygogo@hotmail.com");

$e_mail="funnygogo@hotmail.com";
$bodym="rn From him";
$namem="george";
$from1="From: ".$name."rn";

$gg=@mail("$e_mail","$namem","$bodym","$from1");
if($gg) print"the mail was sent ";
else print"fail to send the mail";

?>

Try removing '@' sign near the mail() function.

when i remove @ near mail() function
i recieved that error

Warning: Failed to Receive in d:phpdevwwwsendmail.php on line 10
fail to send the mail

and that is the code again
<?php
ini_set("SMTP","localhost");
//ini_set("sendmail_from","funnygogo@localhost.com");

$e_mail="funnygogo@hotmail.com";
$bodym="rn From him";
$namem="george";
$from1="From: ".$name."rn";

$gg=mail("$e_mail","$namem","$bodym","$from1");
if($gg) print"the mail was sent ";
else print"fail to send the mail";

?>
thanks for help

Hey, just a tip. Can you try sending your mail not to a Yahoo or Hotmail... just to another mails address. Because I have seen some guyz here had problems in sending mail from script to Yahoo and Hotmail addresses.

i changed the email
and it works BUT
is there any way that i could send emails@yahoo.com
or emails@hotmail.com
becuse they are very important
and also thanks for giving me hope that it will work

thank you very much ,,,,,,,,,,,
it works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Is it working for yahoo and hotmail now? Resolve the thread.

Sir it will be very helpful for other people if you post how you solve the problem.

Hey guyz, I'm still have the problem, I tried the above code and I don't get any error (it say that e-mail was sent) but if I use yahoo.com or hotmail.com I dont get any mail, howerver if I use my company e-mail (company.org) it work's. Something is missing in the solution.

Try this code for mailing to hotmail and yahoo. Worked for me!

I tried, but it doesn't work. I don't get any error, then the script it's ok but I don't get the message on hotmail. I think that my problem should be somewhere in the SMTP because if I use myemail.org it works, why not for hotmail.com ?

Try Yahoo! instead of Hotmail. Strange thing is when I just use mail() function it didn't go to Hotmail/Yahoo. But after adding those headers it goes. Should work for you too!

I give up, yahoo, hotmail and latinmail, etc, don't work and even another corporate e-mail outside my server doesn't work, now I'm sure that I have a SMTP problem but I don't know what it is. Any idea ?

this what i did i have a hotmail account
try what i wrote and i wish you good luck
PART1
configuring outlookexpress
1-open outlookexpress that is installed with windows
2-chooose tools>Accounts>Add>Mail
3-write your name thgat will be displayed in the message that will be sent
4-click Next and choose i already have an email address
5- write your email address down and click next
6-choose your incoming email service provider hotmail
8-the incoming IMAP or POP3 server is
http://services.msn.com/svcs.hotmail/httpmail.asp
9-click next
10-type your account name and the password that you use to enter the hotmail and click next

PARTR2
download the "easy SMTP server" to make your Pc SMTP server
edit the file php.ini
if you are using phpdev (wonderful)
go to phpphpsapiinstall and change
SMTP=yourname
max_execution_time=60 #the defualt is 30
(becuse it sometimes takes much time)

______________________________________
THEN GO TO EASY SMTP SERVER>CONFIGURE>CHECK THE CHECKBOX
(this check box results from configuring outlook express
also edit the php>ini-dist and make it php.ini
and also change
SMTP+LOCALHOST
MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=60

All emails sent using this script usually go to the Junk Email folder in hotmail. Look into the junk folder of your hotmail account. it should be there. Now, how to make the script not to send the message to junk folder is still unknown. I hope somebody can come up with a solution.