Well it says message sent, but nothing in my inbox appears

as a test to be basic i tried

PHP Code:

mail("myemail@domain.com", "subject", "message", "From: email@email.com"); 


still no email.. have i got it wrong?

It's most likely being blocked as you have not added headers. Try:

PHP Code:

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 


I think what is wrong is that the section:

PHP Code:

"From: email@email.com" 


Needs to be:

PHP Code:

"From: email@email.com\r\n" 


i tired the /r/n part, nothing. I treid a completely new em-ail, worked 1st time (with /r/n)

So the email on the domain is dodgy, you think changing servers would help? I'm doing that anyway

It's possible that their outgoing spam filter is catching it somehow. If I were you I would find out how strict their outgoing filter is, and if it seems to be causing the problem, or the host is to blame in any other way, I would consider changing. Mail is an important enough function that it should be reliable...

Luckily enough the hosting admin is dansgalaxy from here. lol

I spoke to him and it seems to be sorted

He fixed it as soon as he read my recommendation that you might want to consider changing hosts, didn't he?

haha, the problem was actually something hard to explain. My account on his server has the domain listed, but I haven't yet changed the DNS on the domain. so when I try and send an email from that server, it thinks "hey, that email is hosted here.. lets send it there". So my actual email doesn't recieve it