Why is my mail function not working? PHP

Question

I'm trying to set some PHP, where if a user enters in their email address; they send an email to the organization.

Here's my html

<input type="text" name="email" size="20" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />

And here's my PHP script

$email = $_POST['email'];

mail('randomEmail@gmail.com', 'This is a Subject', 'This is the body of the email', 'From $email');

I have a real email address that I'm using for this code. But it won't send it to the email that I want; what am I doing wrong? I am also working on a local server as well. Does that make a difference?

Answer 1

// message lines should not exceed 70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

for more help:http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp

Answer 2

The format of your From header is incorrect. You're missing the colon :.

mail('randomEmail@gmail.com', 'This is a Subject', 'This is the body of the email', 'From: $email');