I was successful in including the code to send an email to confirm the addition of a user account. While a check of MySQL confirmed that the account was created and the message "Thank for registering" was shown, no email was sent and therefore the account is not active.

Any ideas as to what could be stopping the email from being sent?

Hi amgutter,

Thanks for including the information on this issue.

@mail must have returned TRUE, otherwise you would not have
gotten the message "Thank you for registering...". Now,
just because @mail returns TRUE, that does not mean the mail
will reach the destination. It only means it was accepted for
delivery. What happens if you write a very simple php
test case program that sends mail to yourself, does that
work? What if you try sending to a couple of different
email addresses, do any of those work?

Check your spam/junk folder.

I hope this helps.

The message was never sent to my spam folder. I tried creating a simple email script which returned without errors, but still no email in my inbox.

I was wondering if it could be an issue in php.ini. I noticed that "sendmail_from" is set to no value. I imagine this has to be set to something??

In the end it seems that the problem was one of configuring a mail server.

I followed a quick tutorial found on youtube for the purpose of sending an uncomplicated email to myself -- which failed at first.

Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpdqLCMo4Hw

The problem that was occurring was that I needed to set a value for the SMTP, which I did by adding the line I didn't know I had to specify an outgoing mail server. This was easy enough as my existing gmail account could be used.

After I ran the script, I received the email successfully. Interestingly enough, I also received about twenty other email attempts that had been waiting for a correct path to open.

Probably a rookie mistake, but I happily pass along a solution that worked for me.