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[Kristina Anderson]

Thanks David,

I found the following...is it worth trying to modify the ini file or 
should I start trying to use the Zend mail function and/or Outlook?

//==

Runtime Configuration

The behavior of the mail functions is affected by settings in the 
php.ini file.


Mail configuration options:

Name Default Description Changeable 
SMTP "localhost" Windows only: The DNS name or IP address of the SMTP 
server PHP_INI_ALL 
smtp_port "25" Windows only: The SMTP port number. Available since PHP 
4.3 PHP_INI_ALL 
sendmail_from NULL Windows only: Specifies the "from" address to be 
used in email sent from PHP PHP_INI_ALL 

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BTW the client's environment is a hosted server and I will investigate 
the options available if we determine that this turkey won't fly as 
configured. I wasn't anticipating having to install anything and not 
sure whether that is an option.

--Kristina


> 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
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