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[Anon]

Can anyone help?....

In order to receive e-mail from my sites I usually use an, externally hosted, Perl form mailer.

The trouble is, the host has changed the rules so that only domains hosted with them directly can use the program.

All I want to be able to do is mail the form contents from my webserver to our mail server.

I've read a fair bit about the mail() function but it seems to rely on a mail daemon being installed on the web server - I can't really do this.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Chris

[ruttiger]

you could use:
a href="mailto:[e-mail]"

or use a form with the action set to an email address. I've never used the latter, so there might be some other stuff involved, like the encryption or method

[mikej]

Here is a simple function that does not use the mail() function provided in php. It does require that you have sendmail installed on the computer that is running this script.

function sendMail($to, $from, $sub, $mes) {
$path_to_sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
$fp = popen("$path_to_sendmail -t", "w");
$num = fputs($fp, "To: $to\n");
$num += fputs($fp, "From: $from\n");
$num += fputs($fp, "Subject: $sub\n\n");
$num += fputs($fp, "$message\n\n");
pclose($fp);
if ($num > 0)
return 1;
else
return 0;
}

Hope this helps, please forgive all typos.

Mike J

[plutarck]

I think this might be to your liking:

http://freedback.com/

Hope that site helps.

[Anon]

Thanks everyone.

Chris