Re: About mail() function

I run PHP on WinNT (admittedly with a mail server on the same box although I don't think it matters), if you're sending plain text no headers are required. Derek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Hoffman" <andy.hoffman@bms.com> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: 01 September 2000 16:01 Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] About mail() function > Nashirak Bosk wrote: > > > I think it is nessasary to have some version of Send Mail running. > > > > Not necessarily... especially not in a Windows environment, where sendmail > doesn't REALLY exist (though there are some win32 ports :))... If running on > linux/unix this is definitely true, but on WinNT, you specifically state your > SMTP server settings in the php.ini. In the WinNT case, the sendmail path > information in php.ini is skipped and php connects straight to the smtp server > for sending mail. Now, if the SMTP server isn't configured correctly in > php.ini, OR you don't state a full set of headers when calling mail(), then > you'll have problems... and I don't believe the SMTP server has to be on the > same NT box as your web server & php - but it must be accessible either by a > straight IP address, or via a dns entry. > > Or am I talking out of my hindquarters again? > > -- > Andy Hoffman > Web Developer > Bristol-Myers Squibb > email: andy.hoffman@bms.com > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >