php mail function and Hermes

hello,

i made a form in which the user fills in his emailaddress and clicks the 'send' button (it's a newsletter subscription). i've written a php-script which sends this request to my emailaddress. i know the script is okay because i'm running it on a free host and all works fine.
however, i'm running Phperl2 on my windows pc (Apache, perl, php, mysql and hermes) and if i run the script THERE it doesn't work. i don't get an error message or anything else, but the request simply isn't received in my mailbox. Hermes is started and the settings in my php.ini are :

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = me@example.com

do i have to configure Hermes in any way?? has it got something to do with the accounts?

this is my form

<form action='../scripts/mail.php' enctype='multipart/form-data' method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='to' <SPAN title="value='bavenken@yahoo.com'>value='bavenken@yahoo.com'><br</SPAN>>
<input type='hidden' name='subject' value='nonsense'><br>
your emailaddress : <input type="text" name="email">
<input type=submit name="send" value="send"></td></tr>
</form>

this is the php-script (called mail.php)

<?php

if ($send) {
$body = $email;
$boundary = uniqid( "");
$headers = "From: $from
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary\"";
$body = "--$boundary
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
$body
--$boundary--";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
echo('your mail has been sent!');
}

?>

does anybody know?

thanx in advance.

bye.

; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

are you running a mail server on your own computer? if not you have to set SMTP to your smtp not localhost. i.e.
SMTP = smtp.myisp.com

yes. i'm running Hermes mail server on my pc.

maybe it's got something to do with the accounts? don't know much about those things. i'm a designer.

maybe it doesn't like localhost?

huh? does it have feelings? wow! cool!

yep sometimes they do can use you localhost in another mail program? is your mail server working correctly?

do you mean 'Outlook' or something like that?

ya (vb wants more then 5 char)

i set the smtp server (in outlook) to 'localhost', but sending mail didn't work (that is : outlook says 'message sent' but nothing was received in the inbox of the mailaddress i sent the email to). Hermes was running.

so i guess Hermes ain't working properly?

what is 'vb'?

and 'localhost' is more then 5 characters. or isn't that what you meant?

I was trying to just type "ya" as my message but vb (vBulletin the code that runs this forum) doesn't let a message under 5 char be posted