mail()

[JRMillion]

Hey, I am making a academic related site as a favor to a friend, and its going on their College server.
They claim to have PHP running, but my mail() call doesnt work (and it works fine on my own server).
Is there an easy way to check if its disabled or if the settings are wrong? Keep in mind I dont have access to php.ini

thanks!

[Garrett]

a file with...

<?

phpinfo();

?>

on their server should tell you the complete configuration of php

[JRMillion]

yeah i did that already...
the mail server is listed as localhost... so I emailed the web admin there to see whats up

thanks

[Gibb]

make a page with this code:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

About halfway down you should see what the settings are for sendmail.

You can temporary assign new values within your PHP scripts that will override values in the php.ini file (since you dont have access to it), if you find that you need to change something.

Are you receiving an error "Call to undefined function"?

Also, what platform is the server running on?

Edit:


doh, somebody else beat me to it

[JRMillion]

no, not getting that error.

its linux for sure, redhat i think

the settings look ok, i think they mainly use windows servers, so they probably just didnt set it up properly

thanks for the ideas

[RahulKumar]

Try using ini_set()

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

-RKX

[Edit]: Check relaying?