Hi,
I never said it is impossible to use mail() on a WIN machine - it just
needs some additional adjustments of the php configuration file.
For those who need more information on the topic check the user contributed
notes at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php
Regards
Dobromir Velev
-----Original Message-----
From: DL Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dobromir Velev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] How to write errorhandling??
>Luditus/Dobromir,
>It IS possible to run the mail function on a Win machine - I had a
Win2000/IIS(with its own SMTP stub) box running PHP
>mail happily.
>Also it is possible to have a Win-with-no-local-SMTP configuration. I have
re-jigged my WinNT portable to run the same
>PHP/Apache script connecting directly to my ISP's SMTP server (in part
using the path var mentioned).
>I haven't tried to combine email with 'headers' though!
>...if that's the problem...
>=dn
>
>
>> Hi,
>> I see that everybody is looking for the error in the header function -
but
>> the error actually is that Luditus is trying to use mail on a Windows box
>> with no SMTP server on it.
>> It is possible to suppress the mail function output using @mail, but it
>> won't fix the problem - if you want to use mail function on a WIN machine
>> you'll need a sendmail like program and you will have to adjust the
>> sendmail_path variable in your PHP configuration.
>>
>> >Hi Fokes,
>> >
>> >I would like to send an mail via the mail function.
>> >
>> >If the mail failes I would like to redirect to an errorpage. Currently
my
>> >code looks like this:
>> >
>> > if ( mail($email,$subject_confirm_account, $message_confirm_account,
>> >$from_confirm_account) ){
>> > HEADER("Location:index.php?fuseaction=txt&msg=registered");
>> file://success
>> > }
>> > else{
>> > HEADER("Location:index.php?fuseaction=txt&msg=mailproblem"); // mail
>> could
>> >not been sent
>> > };
>> >
>> >Unfortunatelly I get an erromessage like that:
>> >
>> >Warning: Failed to Connect in
>> >e:\projects\globosapiens\07_production\actual\account\include\user.php
on
>> >line 256
>> >
>> >Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
>> >started at
>>
>e:\projects\globosapiens\07_production\actual\account\include\user.php:256)
>> >in
e:\projects\globosapiens\07_production\actual\account\include\user.php
>> on
>> >line 260
>> >
>> >Where is the problem??? I can't see it.
>
>
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