Re: Mail problems....a funny one!

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Kerry Neighbour wrote: > > I run W2K with PHP4 (4.0.2). I have a certain script that generates an > email message from a form on a web page. Works just perfectly from my > local system. > > If I upload the webpage onto my Host - nothing happens. Everything looks > and feels like the mail has been sent - but really nothing happens. ie, > I press the 'send email' button, and everything looks ok - but no mail > every appears in the mail box. > > I have put phpinfo() into the script. The version locally is the same as > what is on the host - 4.0.2. I have looked through the variables shown > by PHPINFO and can see nothing too different between the local machine > and the host. > > We are talking about the mail() command here. > > Every other PHP function seems to work just fine locally and on the > host. > > Does anyone have any idea what I should look at?? > If your host is Unix-based, you'll have to check with them to see if sendmail is properly set up to accept email coming from your mail address/domain. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>