PHP & email

[Sandy_11]

I want to ask the question about sending email in php.
But it does not function well
and display the error:
Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build in /usr/local/apache_1.3.22/htdocs/interface/mailtest.php on line 13


Is it there is something command I need to set?? Then I don't know what is the command and where to carry out??

and is it if i want to use php code to send email, is it just simply write down the following code:

mail("email@address", "Subject", "content");
?>

then when the user access those php will automatically send email????


Thanks a lot

[Josh Owings]

What version of PHP are you running? The example line seems to work fine on my box running PHP/4.0.4.
Maybe you should just try upgrading.

[Christopher C. Weis]

Most of the mail configuration is done in the php.ini file. Depending on your platform, you may have the path to sendmail wrong or smtp problems. It's all under the '[mail function]' block in the php.ini file. I know that the "sendmail_from=" parameter in this block gave me trouble in the past. SMTP servers don't like to forward mail from 'me@localhost.com', or at least they shouldn't, but that's a different topic...

I hope this helps, and don't forget about points...

~Chris

[Sandy_11]

but I cannot find the php.ini in the server
and I just find only php.ini-dist and php.ini-optimized

And then what should I do??