I've also seen instructions on going the long distance of setting up Mecury and so forth-- I'd rather not bother. Why can't I use AUTH SMTP in the 'fake' sendmail that is packaged with XAMPP?
Now, some might say that I can. I tested my sendmail.ini file with a test batch file to send an email. It all worked fine-- I received the email on the other end just as planned. But when I use php to access the sendmail function, NADA. Now, I don't even see comments in the sendmail logs to show that php even TRIED to do it. So where it my mistake?
My php.ini says:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
;SMTP =
;smtp_port =
; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from =
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = "C:\Program Files\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
What is going wrong? Why isn't php accessing the sendmail function? It works fine without Mercury running (that is, in my test outside and before php).
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