Hello

When trying to send mail inside my PHP script I receive the following error:

Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build

What is the reason ? Compile errors ? Or my Host has disabled access to PHP
mail() function ?
How can I solve the problem ? Is there any alternatives to using mail()
function that may work?

Regards,
Mac

Mac,

Is this PHP on Unix or Windows?

Frank

Frank

It is a linux 7.1 and PHP 4.


Regards, Mac

Mac,

Can you put together a little phpinfo page (i.e <?php phpinfo() ?>) and check if php knows about sendmail on your server? It should show up as sendmail_path
.

In looking at the source code for PHP, it looks like the only reason that mail would not be included is if the config program could not find sendmail.

Frank

Frank

Thank you for your help. phpinfo was the first step I did yesterday but I was not able to recognize that it is a config error or it is on purpose.

Anyway results are these:


sendmail_from (local)no value (Master)no value
sendmail_path (local) -t -i (master) -t -i


There are also other (no value) fields in phpinfo

upload_tmp_dir no value no value
user_dir no value no value
variables_order no value no value

And many others too.

If you want to see phpinfo yourself, please see :

http://www.onlineprogrammer.org/phpinfo.php

Regards,
Mac

Mac,

Your host must have sendmail in a non-standard location. PHP will look in the following directories for sendmail:

$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib

It looks like you can tell php where sendmail is when you configure it, but I've never done that, so I can't tell you how :bawling:

Frank