php mail() function not working

[Kevin Cozens]

At 07:42 PM 10/07/2003 +0200, Peter wrote:
>If there would be a way to make mail() send SMTP to localhost instead of
>attempting to deliver it, then it would probably work with any setup, and
>leave the mail routing to postfix, and the firewalling to the firewall
>(you need not use only port 25 for incoming ...). That way these apps
>should stop trampling on each other's permissions and everything should
>keep working even if you upgrade something.

The Perl scripts I have used on web pages that needed to send mail simply 
invoked the /bin/mail command to send mail. If you can do the same thing 
from PHP you will have a solution that will work regardless of the mail 
system used and you won't have to worry about permissions.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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