the Mail command doesn't work

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April 7th, 2000, 06:24 AM

dave1904

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I have apache/php/mysql installed on a win98 machine. When I try to execute the mail command in PHP3 it just doesn't work. any ideas?

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Dave

April 7th, 2000, 09:35 AM

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Hi Dave,

On Unix the standard mail program is sendmail (i.e. /usr/lib/sendmail -t).
In win98 you have to define the smtp server (i.e. smtp.server.com) in the php.ini file. This will be called when you use mail().

Peter

April 7th, 2000, 11:01 AM

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Thnx pav, ill try it!

Dave

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