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[David Krings]

Kristina Anderson wrote:
> Hi everyone --
> 
> My current client's app is a PHP 4 site running on a Windows box (don't 
> ask...I have no idea why).

Because it is a stable setup and typically outperforms a LAMPP stack. I use 
this since day one and even before my PHP time for both development and 
production use.

> I'm trying to use the mail() function and 
> the mail isn't cooperating.  
> 
> (Two things that I noticed in phpinfo() are that Internal Sendmail 
> Support for Windows is enabled and the Zend engine is installed.

I never got the mail() function to work right on Windows. There are tools 
around. I did try once the Unix Utilities from Luckasoft (get them here: 
http://luckasoft.com/download/UUtils_setup.exe). It is a freeware package for 
Windows that mimics sendmail. It has a GUI configuration program and accepts 
the same shell command format as known from Unix. But since this is a client's 
box installing extra stuff is probably the least desireable approach.

> So maybe I could/should be using another method to send the mails, or 
> there is a trick that I'm not aware of that I need to use to get this 
> to work?)

Well, there are other means. You may even google for the CLI of Outlook 
assuming it is setup and configured right.

> It's not necessarily super high volume but we will be sending a 
> significant amount of automated emails to registered people on the site.
> 
> Thanks for any help...

Well, I guess once it works volume becomes a concern only when you send a lot 
of messages.

Sorry, I'm not excessively useful here.

David