Re: RE: How to send an email using php in windows 2000

>What you've been trying to do in Windows, is to use PHP's sendmail functions >which unfortunately won't work. Windows will not allow you to use the mail >functions, because these depend on the system's ability to send mail from >the command line (like Unix's sendmail). > >What you actually need to do is to connect directly to the SMTP server using >sockets, perform the username/password negotiation and then send the e-mail. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I think that php's mail function under windows does exactly that - ie use a socket to talk to the mail server. It does not use a command line type method of mailing. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org