Re: OS need anything for mail() to work?

From: Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:35:45 +0000
Subject: Re: OS need anything for mail() to work?
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brian Dunning <brian@briandunning.com> wrote: > I'm running PHP 5.2.5 on OS X 10.5.2, and using the following code: > > ini_set('sendmail_from','address@mydomain.com'); > ini_set('SMTP','working.server.com'); > mail('brian@mydomain.com', 'Subject', 'Message'); > > The servers and addresses are KNOWN TO WORK, I use this same code and same > info on a number of different web servers around the world. Authentication > is absolutely not the problem. This code works on other computers, but it > doesn't work on mine. I get no error, but no email is ever sent. > > So my question: Is there something that needs to be installed, running, or > otherwise configured on a computer to make sure PHP can send emails? How > could I test for this? > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > You can also try doing tail -f /var/log/mail.log at the terminal to see if it says anything there.

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