I'm new to php, so forgive what may sound stupid.
I'm using the mail extension in ultradev, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm not getting any error, but I'm not getting any emails either. I've searched through these posts and saw a similar problem someone had, and ther response was to configure the php.ini file. Unfortunately I don't seem to have access to that on my host's server. Is there another way around this?

The most likely cause of this problem is that your webhost hasn't configured the mail sending capabilities of PHP correctly.

This is notorious on Windows Servers, but also some ISPs don't set it up correctly on Linux servers either.

Unfortunately, it is a case of contacting your host provider to find out if they use sendmail. If they don't then you won't be able to use my email extensions as sendmail is required.

All the best

Tim Green

Extension & PHP TalkZone Manager
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I ve got the same problem but on my own server (Mac OSX/apache/php 4.1.1), as I am connected via Broadband to a cable company which runs my mailserver I changed the mailfunction values in the php.ini to smpt = smpt.outbound.server
and sendmail_from = but it still wont work, the path for sendmail looks correct still the phpinfo.php page tells m e that smpt is localhost...
can anyone help or suggest a possible reason? As I am a newbie that might be a very basic mistake...
many thanks