Mail funtion is working but not getting email.

[denoteone]

I have a test mail function that is echoing to the screen that it was successful. But I am not getting the email. This is a new server set up. but below is my email script and the the settings from my php.ini file.  Does it look like I am missing anything?

 

<?

// ---------------- SEND MAIL FORM ----------------

// send e-mail to ...
$to="me@localhost";

// Your subject
$subject="Test";

// From
$header="from: your name <your email>";

// Your message
$message="Hello \r\n";
$message.="This is test\r\n";
$message.="Test again ";

// send email
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// if your email succesfully sent
if($sentmail){
echo "Email Has Been Sent .";
}
else {
echo "Cannot Send Email ";
}

?>

 

php.ini

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
sendmail_from = me@myserver.com

 

[ignace]

$to="me@localhost";

 

Do you have a mail server running on your client?

[denoteone]

service sendmail status

 

 

sendmail is stopped.

 

 

Is there anyway I can specify an external mail server?