i had a similar problem back in october, but I cannot tell you if it will help you or not... read this over and see if it gleans any nuggets for ya:
this is a conversation btw myself and a friend from a different board.
"Duly noted, LOL!
I think this was the prob...just in case anyone else you hear has similar probs.
mail() doesnt seem to work correctly under CGI extension, but does work under Load Module. Problem is, if you use the .msi installer (which is what came with my book) it doesnt load correctly...see this note from php.net(not the ZIP file has "CGI binary plus server API versions for Apache" and the installer is "CGI only")grr:
Windows Binaries
All Windows binaries can be used on Windows 95/98/Me and on Windows NT/2000.
PHP 4.0.6 zip package [4,859Kb] - 23 June 2001
(CGI binary plus server API versions for Apache, AOLserver, ISAPI and NSAPI. MySQL support built-in, many extensions included, packaged as zip)
PHP 4.0.6 installer [755Kb] - 23 June 2001
(CGI only, MySQL support built-in, packaged as Windows installer to install and configure PHP, and automatically configure IIS, PWS and Xitami, with manual configuration for other servers. N.B. no external extensions included)
After all that, and sticking this that and the other thing in the conf file, i was getting all sorts of weird errors making diagnostics a bitch...so i finally RTFM slowly and methodically and caught that nugget of info, extracted the zip in, did all the other install tasks, and wham-o it worked, PHEW!
Apprectiate the help...talk to ya soon."
