mail() Am I missing something?

I downloaded a free SMTP server called Free SMTP server (imagine that.) And I have a PHP script that looks like this:

$to="My Email Address";
$subject="Yo!";
$message="Hi!";
mail($to, $subject, $message) or die("Failed");

And it's of course showing me, failed. Any other settings or things I forgot to do?

did you configure your php.ini to use it?
I think I used fake sendmail in the past:
http://www.glob.com.au/sendmail/

what does it say if you take off the ' or die(...)" ?

If I take off the or die it doesn't say anything. Here's the general mail area of my php.ini:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = confirmation@betaboards.gotdns.com

can you telnet into your local SMTP server and send email?
follow these directions..
http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html

is display_errors on in your php.ini ? does the SMTP server say that it processes it or anything?

What is my local SMTP server again? And yes, display_errors says On.

your local SMTP server is localhost which points to 127.0.0.1 (ping localhost to see for yourself)

My SMTP server (free SMTP server) lists my email address under active connections, but I never get the email.

if you send an email to the address using a valid smtp server, does it work?

I'm not really familiar with SMTP servers so I don't know.

Here's a quick way to debug:

Download Swift Mailer from swiftmailer.org. Tell it to connect to your SMTP server on locahost, try sending an email and print_r($mailer->transactions) to see what happened. The errors plugin will help to show you the obvious too.

Ok, how do I tell it to do that, specifically?

Ok, how do I tell it to do that, specifically?

Did you read the documentation (http://www.swiftmailer.org/documentation/)?

Namely: http://www.swiftmailer.org/documentation/33#view

Oh right, documentation. Thanks, that worked.