Re: mail doesn't send

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Colleen R Dick wrote: > This question is going to sound stupid. mail is pretty straight forrward, you get a recipient, > a subject, a message and a from if you want and pass it to this routine called mail which returns > non zero if the mail request was well formed. At least that what the book says. > > well it is returning non zero but I have tried all my email addresses and none of them have > gotten the test message. > > What could make it fail to send. I promise they are typed correctly, unless you are supposed > to put some hidden characters in that I don't know about. > > I'm sorry if this is a dupe I did try to post this question earlier, maybe my mail pipe > has a clog???? > Hmm - sorry about the non-word wrap but her mailer doesn't do it and mine doesn't wrap quoted in replies ;-( If you are running under Windoze, check that you have set the mail config directives in your ini file correctly; you need to define the SMTP server you are using and the From address. If under *nix, check your system logs to see if there are any clues; also check that you have an entry in your ini file to point to the path to your sendmail (or replacement) and trhat you have the -t flag for sendmail. Don't forget to restart apache if you make changes to the ini file. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA