Re: any reason why mail() returns a false value?

Ed, thanks for taking a look at this: [eprice@media eprice]$ less public_html/testmail.php <html> <head>

        <title>a mail Test</title>

</head> <body> <?php

        $return = mail('pricee@hhbrown.com', 'subject', 'message');

        print "<p>Now, hopefully your message has been sent.";
        print "The return value of mail() is " . (int)$return . ".</p>\n";

?> </body> </html> The results I get are: Now, hopefully your message has been sent.The return value of mail() is 0. My path_to_sendmail is confirmed to be correct, and again, I have tested sendmail -- it works fine from the command line. It's executable by all users, so my Apache user shouldn't have a hard time executing it. There's just no explanation! I've even pointed my path_to_sendmail to an executable shell script that prints a confirmation message if it is executed, and the mail() function has the exact same effect if I do this. Gratefully, Erik On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 12:56 PM, Lazor, Ed wrote:

Please send code generating the problem.

-----Original Message----- my sendmail problem is still present -- every time I try to call the "mail()" function, even with the simplest of arguments (the first three required arguments, all three of them simple string literals: mail('pricee@hhbrown.com', 'SubjectString', 'BodyText')), it fails. No email is sent, the return value of the function, when cast to integer, is zero, and I have thoroughly tested that sendmail works just fine. It is a RedHat 7.2 server, if that matters (though I don't think it does). I have done all of my compiling as root, and /usr/sbin/sendmail was definitely in my PATH.

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