thanks for your comments guys. After tralling through AOL, i guess their whitelist system sucks for small time programmers like me. They want 1 cent per email sent from my webform. So, following a suggestion from mainewoods (thanks), I hard coded the FROM email address into my script and it worked. Basically I changed the script to:- [code] <? //set up the mail $recipient = "someone@aol.com"."\r\n\r\n"; $subject = "Contact Request"; $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n"; $headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n"; $mailheaders .= "From: Someones Web Site <someone@anemailaddress.com> \n"; //send the mail mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $headers); ?> [/code] thanks for looking into this guys, great forum... remember to donate! :) SOLVED