mail doesn't send

This question is going to sound stupid. mail is pretty straight forrward, you get a recipient, a subject, a message and a from if you want and pass it to this routine called mail which returns non zero if the mail request was well formed. At least that what the book says. well it is returning non zero but I have tried all my email addresses and none of them have gotten the test message. What could make it fail to send. I promise they are typed correctly, unless you are supposed to put some hidden characters in that I don't know about. I'm sorry if this is a dupe I did try to post this question earlier, maybe my mail pipe has a clog???? for how to maximize your time on line go to http://theroute.to/easymoney ______________________________________________________ Get Paid... With Your Free Email at http://www.zwallet.com/index.html?user=platypus