Mail sending using mail(), or phpmailer

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The Hostgator web hosting thread below was started by verlen on 2009-05-07 11:05:44:

Hello everyone,

I just switched to Hostgator a few weeks ago and tried my old sites on the server.
I found just one thing that doesn’t work for me: mail sending.
I already read another thread about using phpmailer, but it didn’t help me.
I configured phpmailer like this:

Code:

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$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host      = "mail.domain.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;
$mail->SMTPAuth  = true;             
$mail->Host      = "mail.domain.com";
$mail->Port      = 26;                    server
$mail->Username  = "postmaster@domain.com"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password  = "mypass";        // SMTP account password

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$mail->Host =
the value comes from mail accounts->configure mail client icon.
I even tried with SMTP port 25.

The message I got is:

PHPMailer - SMTP basic test with authenticationSMTP -> FROM SERVER:220-gator778.hostgator.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Thu, 07 May 2009 11:00:06 -0500 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-gator778.hostgator.com Hello www.domain.com
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 OK
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 Accepted
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 OK id=1M2610-0008Gp-5W
Message sent!

What is this????

by the way this

Code:

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$body="asdkjhasdasd.";

$to = "my@email.com";
$subject = "whatever";
mail($to,$subject,$body);

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does not work either.

please tell me what the problem is…
Or if you could tell me how to send a simple email using mail(), I could modify it and use it for phpmailer.

Thank you very much in advance.

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