Re: mail() problems...

Gentlemen, Thank you for your assistance. The PHP mail scripts were taken from Julie Meloni's book on PHP called "Fast and East" on pp. 116-117. (PrimaTech). In fact, she writes: "If you're using PHP4 on Windows, look for the following lines in your php.ini file: [mail function] SMTP = ; for Win32 only sendmail_from = ;for Win32 only You'll need to modify the last two lines so that the mail function works properly. 1. For the SMTP entry, use 'localhost" or the name of the outgoing mailserver you use in your e-mail client. 2. For the sendmail_from entry, enter your e-mail address. For example in my php.ini file on Windows contains this: [mail function] SMTP = localhost sendmail_from = julie@thickbook.com END QUOTE So that's what I did -using localhost - and I get: "failed to connect". I'm at a loss. Please help. Thanks. TR