mail() used to work fine on windows (under IIS, anyway) last time I had
to deal with it (years ago).
My suggestion:
- Get an SMTP server hostname at your hosting provider
- Use a better mail-sending system, like swiftmailer:
http://www.swiftmailer.org/ (I think you can still get a reasonably
up-to-date version that will work w. php4)
- Send mail by having PHP talk directly to a dedicated SMTP box.
This is almost always the right answer.
-Tim
Kristina Anderson wrote:
Thanks David,
I found the following...is it worth trying to modify the ini file or
should I start trying to use the Zend mail function and/or Outlook?
//==
Runtime Configuration
The behavior of the mail functions is affected by settings in the
php.ini file.
Mail configuration options:
Name Default Description Changeable
SMTP "localhost" Windows only: The DNS name or IP address of the SMTP
server PHP_INI_ALL
smtp_port "25" Windows only: The SMTP port number. Available since PHP
4.3 PHP_INI_ALL
sendmail_from NULL Windows only: Specifies the "from" address to be
used in email sent from PHP PHP_INI_ALL
//==
BTW the client's environment is a hosted server and I will investigate
the options available if we determine that this turkey won't fly as
configured. I wasn't anticipating having to install anything and not
sure whether that is an option.
--Kristina
Kristina Anderson wrote:
Hi everyone --
My current client's app is a PHP 4 site running on a Windows box
(don't
ask...I have no idea why).
Because it is a stable setup and typically outperforms a LAMPP stack.
I use
this since day one and even before my PHP time for both development
and
production use.
I'm trying to use the mail() function and
the mail isn't cooperating.
(Two things that I noticed in phpinfo() are that Internal Sendmail
Support for Windows is enabled and the Zend engine is installed.
I never got the mail() function to work right on Windows. There are
tools
around. I did try once the Unix Utilities from Luckasoft (get them
here:
http://luckasoft.com/download/UUtils_setup.exe). It is a freeware
package for
Windows that mimics sendmail. It has a GUI configuration program and
accepts
the same shell command format as known from Unix. But since this is a
client's
box installing extra stuff is probably the least desireable approach.
So maybe I could/should be using another method to send the mails,
or
there is a trick that I'm not aware of that I need to use to get
this
to work?)
Well, there are other means. You may even google for the CLI of
Outlook
assuming it is setup and configured right.
It's not necessarily super high volume but we will be sending a
significant amount of automated emails to registered people on the
site.
Thanks for any help...
Well, I guess once it works volume becomes a concern only when you
send a lot
of messages.
Sorry, I'm not excessively useful here.
David
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