mail() function not working at all

[georgeocrawford]

Hi,

I'm setting up php on a friends computer. He's running OS X 10.2.6 Server.

We've got php set up, and it seems to do everything except the mail function.

<?php
$email = mail(&quot;me@hotmail.com&quot;, &quot;hello&quot;, &quot;hello&quot;);
echo ($email ? &quot;yes&quot; : &quot;no&quot;);
?>

The above script hangs for about 15 seconds, then prints "no".

There was NOT a php.ini file in the original installation of PHP. I have added one to the directory /usr/lib/php, which is a direct copy of

http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/php.ini-dist.

Restarted Apache, same result.

I then changed the following:

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

to

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail

... but this changed nothing. I believe this was the default path anyway.

Can someone please help.

I have no experience using OS X Server. I don't know if sendmail automatically runs, or if it needs to be started, or what the path to it actually is. I got thie path above from the Apple Help document on sendmail

Many thanks!

______________________

George

 

[vbkris]

mail() functions is basically a windows oriented function, it needs SMTP, use the sendmail() function...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[cs7536]

make sure that the apache config file has the same email as the email that sending on the php file..

example: apache has johnp@yourdomain.com then the php script has to read:
mail("johnp@yourdomain.com", "subject", "message"

also keep in mind that the email that it is sending from must be your server, it can not be a hotmail account because it has no way of connecting to the server and telling hotmail to send mail out...

hope this helps
Max

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Max