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Hi,
The email does not work in our new setup. Phpinfo shows that the sendmail_path has no value and when I contacted our Isp I was told that they do not support sendmail but that instead I should use c:\perl\bin\blat.exe for the path.
Where can I make this change?
Phpinfo also tells me that "Internal Sendmail Support for Windows" is enabled. I'm not sure what this means though.
Thank you,
John

if you're on a Windows server you want the following part filled out

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.someserver.com
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com


Put the return email address that you want to use in the from, then the SMTP server that you're supposed to use in there. Might be localhost or a FQDN. Uncomment them, then make sure the UNIX path value that you're looking at is commented out with a semi colon

I'm new at this, can you please tell me where can I make these changes?

Oh, sorry. It's in your php.ini. Now, where that would be located on your server I couldn't tell you. I've seen it in c:\ but that isn't the only place it could be. Your phpinfo would actually give you the path for your php.ini config file. If not then your web host would be the only one to know.

I've seen it in:
c:\
c:\windows\
c:\windows\system32\
c:\php\

It can truely be anywhere the people who set it up specified it to hide.

Thanks but I found out this weekend that my Isp will not allow changes to the php.ini file. They suggest that I use ini_set to fix the problem.
Where would I make this change?

I'm just curious, is this a dumb question or do I have a problem that has no real solution?

I'd imagine there is a solution. I don't know the answer to the ini_set questions. I'm also not quite sure why your host woul dnot fill out thier php.ini properly.

Primary settings .. Advanced options you can put any SMTP server in there. Find a mail server you can use and put that smtp setting in there.

If you're upgraded to 7.1, then in the Primary -> Advanced Settings you can specify an SMTP server to use to sendmail through if that will work.

Beat you to it rick

You both beat me. I'm still installing a new one so I can answer the questions. Guess I can scrap that idea.

Thanks but I just upgraded to 7.0.2 and I'm a little hesitant to upgrade again so soon. So do you think that if I added the ini_set to ubbthreads.php it would do the trick or does it also have to be added to other pages? Is upgrading the only way to go?

If you can figure out the exact ini_set that you need then you could add it to the main ubbthreads.php file as that is called for all front end scripts. You'd also need to add it to the libs/admin.inc.php file so emails are sent from the admin area properly.

John, why so hesitant to upgrade to the latest version, if you don't mind my asking? I find upgrades to be quick and painless, but I've done so many thousands of them over the years I don't always see the same thing you see anymore. Why the hesitation to update?

I think there is a place to override the sendmail path IN the phpmailer class itself.

David, I guess it's because I'm still new at this and I expect the worst. Mind you, the update that I just did worked like a charm but...
Anyway thanks to all, adding the ini_set to ubbthreads.php and admin.inc.php worked. I have email.

Good news

Just so others can learn from my experience: make sure to have a firewall rule to allow outbound to the SMTP relay that you specify. Fortunately, I thought to look there before posting here.