Call to undefined function mail()

**Justin Koivisto** · Jul 17 '05, 03:18 AM

Re: Call to undefined function mail()

CoralineSage wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running a bulleting board in PHP and everytime a new user
> registers s/he is supposed to receive an email confirmation. After
> filling out the registration form and clicking on submit I get the
> following error message:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 212
>
> From what I've read I needed to have sendmail running, and it is. and
> I needed to add my sendmail path to the php.ini file, which I also
> did:
>
> ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: sendmail
> -t -i).
> sendmail_path =/usr/bin/sendmail
>
> Also, I tried to add my mail server IP address for SMTP, even though
> it says Fro win32 only....but I wanted to use my mailserver to send
> emails
>
> I'm running on RedHat 8, PHP 4.3.4 and sendmail default installation
> from RedHat.
>
> Originally I had unninstalled the sendmail package b/c it was hanging
> when I started my machine. I then installed PHP 4.3.4 and then when I
> realized I needed sendmail to use the feature from the bulletin board
> I reinstalled it.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions? I appreciate any help.[/color]

Did you try re-building PHP after you re-installed sendmail? My guess is
that when you compiled php, there were no headers available for building
the mail function. Unless someone else has a better idea, it's worth a
try... start from ./configure

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**CountScubula** · Jul 17 '05, 03:18 AM

Re: Call to undefined function mail()

It was hanging most likely becouse it was trying to find its host name, your
can hard code it in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

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"CoralineSa ge" <FVZYSWBYIPBW@s pammotel.com> wrote in message
news:9d066669.0 402120818.4c4e0 cba@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running a bulleting board in PHP and everytime a new user
> registers s/he is supposed to receive an email confirmation. After
> filling out the registration form and clicking on submit I get the
> following error message:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 212
>
> From what I've read I needed to have sendmail running, and it is. and
> I needed to add my sendmail path to the php.ini file, which I also
> did:
>
> ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: sendmail
> -t -i).
> sendmail_path =/usr/bin/sendmail
>
> Also, I tried to add my mail server IP address for SMTP, even though
> it says Fro win32 only....but I wanted to use my mailserver to send
> emails
>
> I'm running on RedHat 8, PHP 4.3.4 and sendmail default installation
> from RedHat.
>
> Originally I had unninstalled the sendmail package b/c it was hanging
> when I started my machine. I then installed PHP 4.3.4 and then when I
> realized I needed sendmail to use the feature from the bulletin board
> I reinstalled it.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions? I appreciate any help.
>
> sincerely,
> CoralineSage[/color]

**CoralineSage** · Jul 17 '05, 03:20 AM

Re: Call to undefined function mail()

Justin Koivisto <spam@koivi.com > wrote in message news:<iQOWb.285 $sS3.7660@news7 .onvoy.net>...[color=blue]
> CoralineSage wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running a bulleting board in PHP and everytime a new user
> > registers s/he is supposed to receive an email confirmation. After
> > filling out the registration form and clicking on submit I get the
> > following error message:
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in
> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 212
> >
> > From what I've read I needed to have sendmail running, and it is. and
> > I needed to add my sendmail path to the php.ini file, which I also
> > did:
> >
> > ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: sendmail
> > -t -i).
> > sendmail_path =/usr/bin/sendmail
> >
> > Also, I tried to add my mail server IP address for SMTP, even though
> > it says Fro win32 only....but I wanted to use my mailserver to send
> > emails
> >
> > I'm running on RedHat 8, PHP 4.3.4 and sendmail default installation
> > from RedHat.
> >
> > Originally I had unninstalled the sendmail package b/c it was hanging
> > when I started my machine. I then installed PHP 4.3.4 and then when I
> > realized I needed sendmail to use the feature from the bulletin board
> > I reinstalled it.
> >
> > Any thoughts/suggestions? I appreciate any help.[/color]
>
> Did you try re-building PHP after you re-installed sendmail? My guess is
> that when you compiled php, there were no headers available for building
> the mail function. Unless someone else has a better idea, it's worth a
> try... start from ./configure[/color]

Actually, yes. I found this suggestion elsewhere yesterday and tried
re-building PHP...it still didn't work :( Thanks for the suggestion
though.

CoralineSage

**CoralineSage** · Jul 17 '05, 03:20 AM

Re: Call to undefined function mail()

Yes, I read that somewhere. I will try hard coding it, even though I
haven't had problems after the re-install. Thanks for replying Mike.

sincerely,
CoralineSage

"CountScubu la" <me@scantek.hot mail.com> wrote in message news:<rCQWb.243 66$mm.3654@news svr25.news.prod igy.com>...[color=blue]
> It was hanging most likely becouse it was trying to find its host name, your
> can hard code it in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>
> --
> Mike Bradley
> http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
> "CoralineSa ge" <FVZYSWBYIPBW@s pammotel.com> wrote in message
> news:9d066669.0 402120818.4c4e0 cba@posting.goo gle.com...[color=green]
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running a bulleting board in PHP and everytime a new user
> > registers s/he is supposed to receive an email confirmation. After
> > filling out the registration form and clicking on submit I get the
> > following error message:
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in
> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 212
> >
> > From what I've read I needed to have sendmail running, and it is. and
> > I needed to add my sendmail path to the php.ini file, which I also
> > did:
> >
> > ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: sendmail
> > -t -i).
> > sendmail_path =/usr/bin/sendmail
> >
> > Also, I tried to add my mail server IP address for SMTP, even though
> > it says Fro win32 only....but I wanted to use my mailserver to send
> > emails
> >
> > I'm running on RedHat 8, PHP 4.3.4 and sendmail default installation
> > from RedHat.
> >
> > Originally I had unninstalled the sendmail package b/c it was hanging
> > when I started my machine. I then installed PHP 4.3.4 and then when I
> > realized I needed sendmail to use the feature from the bulletin board
> > I reinstalled it.
> >
> > Any thoughts/suggestions? I appreciate any help.
> >
> > sincerely,
> > CoralineSage[/color][/color]

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