send email without mail()

[Aikon]

I get the following notice when trying to use the straightforward mail() function:

mail() is not supported in this PHP build

So is there another way to send an email from the php code?

I can send email with sendmail from a cgi script. Can I pass the information from php to a mailing cgi script and that way get the email sent??

Thanks a bundle for any suggestions!

[planetsim]

Im just learning CGI Perl to be exact, and i dont see why you cant, have the email form to be sent to a CGI page to sendmail. As long as CGI is supported it should work.

[Aikon]

Searching the net I finally found the way to directly use sendmail from php, with piping:

$fd = popen("/usr/lib/sendmail -t -f [e-mail]", 'w');

fputs($fd, "From: $fromname <$from>\r\n");
fputs($fd, "To: $toname <$to>\r\n");
fputs($fd, "Subject: $subject\r\n");
fputs($fd, "\n");
fputs($fd, $message);
pclose($fd);

Tried it and it worked the first time! :p No need for mail(), no need to ask the system admin to recompile php, which is the only way to get mail() to work, it appears... :eek: