PHP mail() problem

strange problem...
pls put your code here...
problem can this also...few days back hotmail was slow and reaching mail out there was taking hell lot of time....
second may be hotmail account may be full....
regards

the problem might be because of hotmails spam block:
try this:
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<?php
$myname = "Me Myself";
$myemail = "myself@email.com";
$contactname = "Mister Contact";
$contactemail = "contact@email.com";
$message = "hello from happy me";
$subject = "A mail not refused by Hotmail";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myreplyemail>\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server";
mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
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Do you use a specific class or function for testing email address validity before sending ? You could have some trouble with this kind of function.

The funny thing about this is... I created a different email address at hotmail and it worked fine....

I am thinking that it's hotmail's problem not mine. I have checked and there is lots of room in the mailbox and tghe spam filter is off. Hmm I am going to try and email it again to the first address...

Thanks

it's easy to see.
if you have full access on your server check the mail logfile (usually in /var/log).
Here you will see if the mail has been sent or refused.

I've had the same problem. Jonza is probably right and it is the spam block. However for me these headers were enough:
$headers = "From: $myname<$myemail>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: <$myemail>\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: <$myemail>\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; //1 UrgentMessage, 3 Normal
$headers .= "Return-Path: <$myemail>\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1251\n";              
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

Also it seems that 'From' and 'Reply-To' addresses must be valid emails, as some servers check for fakes.
Another problem that i encountered - even though I did set the encoding to win-1251 (Russian) whenever i was sending an email with Subject line in cyrillic the hotmail would take it as spam.

Regards

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