[Lancaster] Help needed with email from web pages

[Matt Fletcher]

You can always try the PHP manual: http://uk2.php.net/mail

Whenever I've had problems setting up mail on local web servers, it's 
always needed me to install sendmail/change the path to it/use smtp 
delivery. A lot of these settings will be in your php.ini file.

Matt Fletcher

Email: info at matt-fletcher.co.uk
Web: http://www.matt-fletcher.co.uk/
Phone: 01524 426559
Mobile: 07792 148897

Ken Hough wrote:
> Hi Guys!
> 
> Can you help me? I'm building a website and need to provide for sending
> email messages from within the site.
> 
> I been using PHP and for test/dev purposes run my own local webserver
> (apache with mod_php). I know that the  web server and the PHP bit work
> OK, because the website uses PHP successfully for a number of other tasks.
> 
> Using the very simple code:
> 
> <?php
> // The message
> $message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
> 
> // In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use
> wordwrap()
> $message = wordwrap($message, 70);
> 
> // Send
> $x = mail('kenhough at uklinux.net', 'My Subject', $message);
> 
> echo $message.'<br>';
> if($x == TRUE) echo "TRUE".'<br>';
> if($x == FALSE) echo "FALSE".'<br>';
> ?>
> 
> appears to send a message  ---  at least judging by the LED activity on
> my ADSL /router, but no messages appear in my mail box and 'TRUE' is
> echoed to the screen.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Can annyone recomend a good Internet link on the subject?
> 
> 
> Ken Hough
> 
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