php.ini setting for mail()

[rolwong]

I would like to run mail() in my php, Before I worked on winxp environment and added the following to php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only
SMTP = localhost
; For Win32 only
SMTP = smtp.pacific.net.hk

; For Win32 only
sendmail_from = [e-mail]
; For Win32 only
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

Now, I would like to run under unix/linux environment. I have added one more script to php.ini:

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

But it doesn't work. How do I change php.ini so that mail() can work under unix/linux environment? thanks

[tsinka]

In which way doesn't it work ?

Thomas

[rolwong]

It wouldn't send out email.

[tsinka]

Ok,

which mail software is installed ... sendmail or postfix ? Besides that what do you get if you execute the command

sendmail -bp

on a shell (should work with both sendmail and postfix since postfix comes with a custom sendmail executable in order not to break applications that expect a sendmail executable) ?

Thomas