mail() function crashing php on win98 ?

[Anon]

im running win98 apache1.3 and php4.0.6 and i know it ins't the best solution but i need a test platform 🙂

now my problem is that when i try to use the mail() funstion it crashes php (php4ts.dll actually, you know you get that nice little windows error box) and on the site apache shows me an internal error (500).

i have sendmail configured , SMTP smtp2.<provider>.nl and sendmail_from <myname>@<myhost>.nl

and it worked the first few times but when i tried to fill in a reply adres it crashed and now it crashes everytime i try to send mail, i rebooted about 4 times and tried my original script which first worked but no result , it keeps crashing.

Anyone maybe know what causes this error ?? i tried everything i know and searched the internet all day but i couldn't find a solution.

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

thanks in advance,
Emonstar

[Anon]

I'm pretty sure you will require a mail server to send the mail (in order to test it) I test with win98/apache/php4.01 mail functions using 1st server (mail server - freeware) and it works great).