Email Failure (Smarty 256)

I'm setting up my first aMember site and think I'm down to one last problem. aMember isn't sending emails to new members (or anything other emails). The email account works (I can send and receive on this account using Mac Mail).

If I log in to admin and go to Setup > Email and try sending using the E-Mail System Configuration > Test this settings (to a differnt email) I gt this aMember error in a popup window

An Error has occured

ERROR [256] Smarty error: [in admin/email_test.html line 5]: [plugin] modifier 'escapes' is not implemented (core.load_plugins.php, line 118) in line 1102 of file /nfs/c05/h03/mnt/76461/domains/xyz.com/html/amember/smarty/Smarty.class.php

Please contact webmaster: orders@xyz.com.

The error URL address is

http://www.xyz.com/amember/admin/em...sbcglobal.net&m=sendmail&p=/usr/sbin/sendmail

I've tried this on all email options (Internal PHP, SMPT and SendMail).

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Tom

Thanks skippy,
That was the error. Along with the frustrating fact that the email account I was sending/testing to considered these messages spam and filtered them (grrrrrrr......). All fixed now.