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

On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Brian Dunning 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?

Hi Brian, Since you got no help from Mr. Cummings (M.R.Not...) :) I thought I would chime in since I'm running 10.4.11 on my server with an upgraded php to 5.2 I didn't have to do anything special to make it work... For me it just worked. Here is a really basic contact form I whipped up for someone but it works on my server, so should work on yours :) <?PHP echo "This is just to get me stats in the code ratings"; $from = "Me@mydomain.com"; $returnPath = "Me@mydomain.com"; $replyTo = "Me@mydomain.com"; //Build the e-mail headers $headers .= "From: ".$from."\r\n"; $headers .= "Return-Path: ".$returnPath."\r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$replyTo."\r\n"; // Write the email $message = "It Worked!\n\n"; if(mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers)) { //header('Location: '); echo "Email was sent!"; } else { echo " <P>Your email was not sent</P>"; } ?> See if that works for you...

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