Re: need some ideas here...

If you have an account on a remote host, you can always do something like this: <?php include("http://www.remotehost.com/~myaccount/mailfunction.inc"); mymail($to, $mailbody); ?> where mailfunction.inc has the mymail function defined to just take your parameters and stuff them into the standard mail(). Of course include()ing from remote hosts can be disabled when compiling PHP, and if your host is really evil, the will have disabled this too. Your last resort is to create your own mail function by fsockopen()ing a connection to port 25 of your SMTP server and sending raw SMTP commands. This would require some reading of the relevant mail RFCs...but is definitely feasible. Ben Gollmer On Monday, May 14, 2001, at 07:04 PM, Christian Dechery wrote:

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? is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a script and return something to it? like <?php code ... code ... code...; code ... code ... code...; here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can send mails, of course with the necessary parms...; code code code....; code code code....; ?> ____________________________ . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net