On 7/10/07, Justin Giboney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there anything special that a server needs to have to run the mail () function? I have apache running on a mac (10.4.10) with no mail/smtp.
mail() uses the local sendmail function on a linux box... i'm not sure exactly what it does on a mac, so i can't directly address your problem. but if it's doing the same thing as on a linux box, sendmail can cause several problems. the one i've run into most is that, since it's sending from your local box rather than an actual mail server, it often gets caught by spam filters. also, if you send an email that claims to be from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but actually comes from a non gmail computer, it might get filtered too. the other problem is that mail() isn't the easiest function to use. the easiest fix (for both problems) is to use the PEAR::Mail and bounce it off an SMTP server. justin -- http://justinhileman.info _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
