Re: mail() question

* Thus wrote Matthias Wulkow (elektrik@gmx.net): > Hallo Curt, > > am Montag, 25. August 2003 um 01:35 hast Du Folgendes gekritzelt: > > >> I have followig error reported: > >> > >> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /usr/local/www/login.php on line > >> 235 > >> > >> What is the trouble here? If I would have trouble because of > >> delivery, normally mail would return false. But here... > > CZ> mail() wasn't compiled into php. > > >> > >> I have php4.3.1 running on linux. I just installed postfix to have the > >> sendmail binary at the right place. > > CZ> You'll have to recompile php. the first time you compiled it php it > CZ> couldnt find sendmail, so it left it out in the binary. > > Well, that makes sense to me. But I just recompiled the same way I did > it first time (config.nice), but I still get the same error reported. > I looked in ./configure --help to see if there are specific arguments > I need to add, but couldn't find any... and this time sendmail is > there (/usr/sbin/sendmail). > > What's wrong? When you configure PHP it uses your $PATH envirmonment (plus som e standard paths.) To get more detailed on the situation There is a file in your surce tree: main/php_config.h: there should be a line (around line #972) that says something like: #define HAVE_SENDMAIL 1 If it says 'undef HAVE_SENDMAIL', that generaly means that your configure script can't find it. If this is the case I would strongly encourge a search/report at bugs.php.net to find out how to resolve this. As long as your sendmail is in a common place you shouldn't have any problems. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."