mail() in windows (again!)

Hi,

First of all, how can I send a message to this list as the first dealing
with a subject, like a question (I guess this is called a thread)?
Well, I wanted PHP to send an e-mail for me. I read in the documentation
that the mail() functions uses the sendmail aplication. I've also heard this
'sendmail' won't work with windows (Windows rulez!(just to piss those linux
guys off!)). There's a user comment in the documentation page recomending
this argosoft program, but from what I saw in their site this makes the
computer into a mail server, and all I wanna do is have some fun (but not
right now), all I wanna do ist a command line program that will take my
message and send it to my smtp server. Is it so hard to do?
Thanx,

Joao Penna Andrade
Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
UNICAMP, Brazil

>that the mail() functions uses the sendmail aplication. I've also heard this
>'sendmail' won't work with windows (Windows rulez!(just to piss those linux
>guys off!)).
>
If you were on linux you wouldn't have to send this mail. What you can
do is to use your ISP's mail server. (which is most probably running
linux :-) ) edit your php.ini file and set that as your smtp server.

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As it says, you need to find a mail server.

Even I am a linux admin, I could recommend you an smtp server for NT
but I won't. You must be able to search for a mail server to make it
working as manual already told you.

Unfortunately, we have lovely and reliable sendmail which does not let
us seek for another.

Sezer


joao66br@yahoo.com.br (Joao Andrade) wrote in message news:<003e01c3aa15$66128230$0100a8c0@tabajara>...
> Hi,
>
> First of all, how can I send a message to this list as the first dealing
> with a subject, like a question (I guess this is called a thread)?
> Well, I wanted PHP to send an e-mail for me. I read in the documentation
> that the mail() functions uses the sendmail aplication. I've also heard this
> 'sendmail' won't work with windows (Windows rulez!(just to piss those linux
> guys off!)). There's a user comment in the documentation page recomending
> this argosoft program, but from what I saw in their site this makes the
> computer into a mail server, and all I wanna do is have some fun (but not
> right now), all I wanna do ist a command line program that will take my
> message and send it to my smtp server. Is it so hard to do?
> Thanx,
>
> Joao Penna Andrade
> Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
> UNICAMP, Brazil