php send mail (windows98)

[Anon]

I have an Apache server on my windows 98 PC, mysql and I installed PHP 4.04.

How can I make a php script send an email? Do you have to install anything extra on my server? Can someone give me an example script that will send an email please??

[Anon]

i dont thinks so.
just make a script, that includes the mail()
funktion.
<?
mail ([e-mail], "This is the mail");
?>

[abockover]

Doesn't that (mail()), by default, point to sendmail?

You edit sendmail path in the php.ini file. Using the mail() function, for me, does not work on a windows system because you can't install sendmail (it's a unix program).

I can't figure out how to get it to work either, but I don't think mail() will do the trick in your case unless you can find a sendmail type program for windows and change the sendmail path in the php.ini file.

-Aaron

tfk wrote:

i dont thinks so.
just make a script, that includes the mail()
funktion.
<?
mail ([e-mail], "This is the mail");
?>

[Anon]

it's easy.
just run php.ini file. Then search for a line that reads as
[mail function]
SMTP= ????????;
sendmail_from= [e-mail];
Put your SMTP server in (???????) and email address below it. save the file. Now u're ready to rock. I welcome thanks.

[Anon]

What do you mean by SMTP server?

[Anon]

SMTP means simple mail transfer protocol. In other words your email ISP.

[abockover]

It's usually mail.yourdomain.com or smtp.yourdomain.com

When I was working mainly with Perl, using SMTP protocols sometimes did not work. What I mean is if you did not have the smtp server of the recipient address, the message could not be sent. It was weird, but the only way I could get around it was to use sendmail. Now that I am using PHP and working primarily on Win32 (unfortunately), I can't use sendmail and have been very hesitent to use SMTP.

[Anon]

Thanks for the clear instructions :-)
A section my php.ini file (in the c:\windows directory) reads :
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP=localhost ; for Win32 only

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

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: 'sendmail -t -i').
;sendmail_path=

so I change the code here and php knows exactly what to do.
(now I feel daft):-)
It is so simple.

Thanks Everyone.:-)

(I want something like CDONTS, but as a php version with email address stored into mysql database... etc. etc..:-)

[Anon]

Take a look at this site:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=119376&thread=119337

[Anon]

OOps! Try this:
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Email_Systems/Email_Utilities/