Re: need some ideas here...

> My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send emails... I've > tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which calls > popen("/usr/lib/sendmail -t") and even a script.cgi with '#!/usr/bin/php' > and all that stuff... > > the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false... > I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server... > > so what do I do? If you know an SMTP server that will allow you to relay mail, you can use fsockopen and write the mail directly to the port 25 on the relay server. I haven't tried it with PHP, but I've done something similar with tcl before. You might try finding something like this already written. -- Joe