Formmail.php brings up error message about configuring "sendmail_from" line

[chris.huh]

This may not be the best place to put this but i have set up apache as
a testing server on my local machine. Whenever i try to use a
formmail.php script i downloaded is always come sup saying that i need
to configure sendmail_from.

I have changed this (in php.ini) to be to my email address and the smtp
server is set to be my university's smtp server (which i hope should
work). But it still comes up with the error.

The actual error is:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or
custom "From:" header missing

I have no idea what might be the problem, any ideas?

[Jerry Stuckle]

chris.huh wrote:

This may not be the best place to put this but i have set up apache as
a testing server on my local machine. Whenever i try to use a
formmail.php script i downloaded is always come sup saying that i need
to configure sendmail_from.

I have changed this (in php.ini) to be to my email address and the smtp
server is set to be my university's smtp server (which i hope should
work). But it still comes up with the error.

The actual error is:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or
custom "From:" header missing

I have no idea what might be the problem, any ideas?

Ensure you're updating the correct php.ini file.

What does a page with just

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

in it show?

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[chris.huh]

a phpinfo() page shows up the university SMTP server as the SMTP server
set for php.

[Jonathan]

> chris.huh wrote:

The actual error is:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or
custom "From:" header missing

I have no idea what might be the problem, any ideas?

It might be that you did not specify the from mail address.

Most of the mailservers today need this to prevent mail-relay (this
prevents the machine from being hijacked to sent SPAM).

The server checks whether the e-mailadress is known and that is should
sent mail for this account. If so it will sent the message else it will
not sent the message.

Jonathan

[Jerry Stuckle]

chris.huh wrote:

a phpinfo() page shows up the university SMTP server as the SMTP server
set for php.

OK, but what does it show as the path for php.ini?

Also - does your SMTP server require authentication? If so, you'll have
to authenticate before you can send mail.

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