Re: need some ideas here...

I should correct myself. The .htaccess file doesn't overwrite the php.ini value, rather it overrides it. Ethan Schroeder ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethan Schroeder" <ethan@netnet.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; "Christian Dechery" <lemming@vento.com.br> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here... > I don't know how you can find sendmail on that system if you don't have > telnet access. Try writing a script that does an exec("which sendmail") and > see if it tells you. I doubt it will, though. Otherwise try different > sendmail locations: /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail, etc. The > .htacess file overwrites the value of the php.ini file, so you can specify > to php where sendmail is for any script that is under the directory your > .htaccess file resides in (unless they don't allow .htaccess). I've had to > use this approach a couple times to get php to send mail off properly. > > Ethan Schroeder > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christian Dechery" <lemming@vento.com.br> > To: "Ethan Schroeder" <ethan@netnet.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:30 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here... > > > > what??? I didn't understand... how will I find out where sendmail is in a > > free-web-host? I don't have telnet access... how can I figure that out? > and > > how a .htaccess file would help me here? > > > > At 19:50 14/5/2001 -0500, Ethan Schroeder wrote: > > >Find where there sendmail is and put this in an .htaccess file: php_value > > >sendmail_path '/path/to/sendmail -t' > > > > > >Ethan Schroeder > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Christian Dechery" <lemming@vento.com.br> > > >To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > > >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:04 PM > > >Subject: [PHP] 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? > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > ____________________________ > > . 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 > > > > > -- > 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 >