mail not sent when headers are used

[vjayis]

hi
i m using mail() function to send mails and it works well for an sample message without including headers.,

when i include headers and send an html content or an sample content i didnt receive an mails ., no mails in spam folder too..

here is my code:

<?php
$fname='vijay';
$header="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$header.="Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$header.="From: ".$fname." <[e-mail]>\r\n";
 
$msg='
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <th align="right" valign="top" scope="row">Name</th>
    <th align="left" valign="top" scope="row">&nbsp;</th>
    <th align="left" valign="top" scope="row">Vijay</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th align="right" valign="top" scope="row">Address</th>
    <th align="left" valign="top" scope="row">&nbsp;</th>
    <th align="left" valign="top" scope="row">Madurai</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th align="right" valign="top" scope="row">Tel</th>
    <th align="left" valign="top" scope="row">&nbsp;</th>
    <th align="left" valign="top" scope="row">9876543210</th>
  </tr>
</table>
';
 
$subject="testing".date('d-M-Y H:i:s');
$to='[e-mail]';
 
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$header);
 
echo "success";
?>
 

i got the message "success" printed but no mails received.

thanks

[Dormilich]

you always get printed "success", even if the mail() function fails. you have to explicitly test the function’s return value to make sure.

[vjayis]

tried using

<?php
$return=mail($to,$subject,$msg,$header);
echo "success";
var_dump($return);
echo $return;
 
?>
 

and got result as

successbool(false)

so what do i want to do..