[G0Ducks]

Hello All,

I am trying to create e-mail by using the mail() function in php. I have my machine set up the corret way, and I am serving the file from local host.

After I create the mail.php file (I know that it doesn't have to be called this, I am just doing it for S&G factor), I go to http://localhost/mail.php and I see the expected results but I never recieve the e-mail!

Here is the code that I am using:

<?
$result = mail("rclark2@gladstone.uoregon.edu", "test", "Let me know if this worked man.\nI");

if($result = true)
{
print "It sent!";
}
else
{
print "Nope, try again!";
}
?>

If anyone has any suggestions on developing php on my osx machine, I would greatly apreciate it. My email is above in the "to" parameter...Though I will be looking for ansers here in this form as well.

Thanks guys / gals!

P.S. For some reason, this forum is not allowing the open php tag, so that part is really there on my machine....<?

[Simon Mundy]

Have you configured your Mac/PC to use Sendmail properly? It's quite a task, and one that's prone to many late nights and bad coffees...

There's a topic on the Mac OS X discussions (may be a week or two old) that talks about setting up Sendmail on a Mac OS X client box. That's the key to it. Once you've got that set up there's very little else that needs to be configured to get PHP to work with mail().

[putamare]

If ($result = true) is always true because you are assigning the value of true to $result. Try

Code:
if ($result == true) {

or

Code:
if ($result) {

or even better:

Code:
if (mail(rclark2@gladstone.uoregon.edu", "test", "Let me know if this worked man.\nI")) {

[l008com]

Not meaning to hijack but, sendmail is known to be a pain to get going on X< cause every software update changes permissions that sendmail doesn't like. Is there a way to make PHP use a standard SMTP server for email? I have Apple's SMTP server running on my Server and using that, or any other instead, would seem to be alot easier. Back when i used to have a UBB running on a Mac, instead of using sendmail, i choose the windows option and selected SMTP Server, typed the machines own IP, and it worked perfectly.

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by l008com:
Is there a way to make PHP use a standard SMTP server for email?

Yep, the nice folks at phpclasses.net have written a mail class that allows you to automate the whole process - you add text/html/images and other attachments automatically, specify your recipients and then the SMTP server details and voila!

[l008com]

But what about a way to make all scripts that use mail, like guestbooks and even this vBulletin, use SMTP instead of sendmail? Instead of just writing scripts specifically for them.