Thank you for advise, I think I'll use .htaccess and that would be
fine. But why do I need to include ""? I'm using in on my local
Apache win32 without "" even though I understand what is "string"
Youri
On 19 Aug 2001, at 16:01, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > I'm on virtual hosting that lets me configure anything with .htaccess
> > file. I was recomended by provider to specify location of sendmail in
> > case I want to use php mail() function I know that I may do it in
> > htaccess file by adding php_value sendmail_path
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail The qwestion is can I do anything else but
> > correcting the path in .htaccess, this is the last thing I want to do.
>
> First of all, you'll need:
>
> php_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"
>
> Yes, you need the quotes.
> And possibly some other options inside quotes depending on your ISP's
> configuration of sendmail.
>
> I don't understand your ISP's rationale for requiring you to do this in
> .htaccess instead of just doing it himself... Either he's letting you use
> mail() or he's not.
>
> I also don't understand why you are loathe to do this... Unless you've
> heard ".htaccess is slow" (which it is). Alas, since your ISP has already
> turned on .htaccess support, you're *NOT* causing any additional significant
> slow-down to *utilize* the feature. The slowness is in Apache looking for
> the damn file, not in your putting (reasonable) stuff in it.
>
> Oh yeah, to answer your original question :-)
>
> You probably *COULD* set up an SMTP server on some other machine and just
> fsockopen() to that SMTP server and spew your emails to that. This will be
> way more faster anyway. Or, perhaps your ISP has an SMTP server that PHP
> can fsockopen() and spew to. Depends on how he configured it. There's all
> sorts of sample code for this SMTP spewing, so you needn't write it from
> scratch -- though it ain't rocket science. I did it, so it *CANNOT* be that
> difficult. :-)
>
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