Using PHP mail() function on godaddy shared serves not working: PHP, IE or FF

Using PHP mail() function on godaddy shared serves not working

I have switched from one ISP to GoDaddy. I have used the PHP mail() function on numerious servers with other ISP's and it works great. Now that I switch to GoDaddy it is not going LOL. Here is what I get when using the code below. Any suggestions?

500 Internal Server Error
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.ipdg3.com Port 80

ini_set("SMTP", "relay-hosting.secureserver.net");
  mail ($To, $Subject, $Msg, $From);

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I have found a work around using PHPMailer

http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/index.html
http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/tutorial.html

This works great and fixes the issues that on shared server hosting at GoDaddy the PHP mail() function does not work and they are not going to help you make it work. At least that has been my experience.

The code below is a function that I created to send out mail using PHPMailer.

$To = The person email address you are sending to
$to_name = The person name you are sending to
$Subject = The subject line of the email
$Msg = The body of the message being sent
$From = The person email address you are sending from
$from_name = The person name you are sending from

Granted this may not be a perfect system but it works for sending basic emails out. PHPMailer has a ton of other features when sending email. This is just one that worked for my basic needs right now.

function send_godaddy_mail($To, $to_name, $Subject, $Msg, $From, $from_name)
{
require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
 
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
//$mail->Mailer = "smtp";
$mail->Host = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net;smtpout.secureserver.net";
 
$mail->From = $From;
$mail->FromName =  $from_name;
$mail->AddAddress($To, $to_name);
 
$mail->Subject = $Subject;
$mail->Body = $Msg;
 
  if(!$mail->Send())
  {
    require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/header.php");
    echo 'Message was not sent.';
    echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/footer.php");
  } else {
    return "Message Sent";
  }
}

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