Thank you very much, Rich!

I am still waiting for my ISP to reply to me. Hopefully they will do so soon, or I'll be asking you guys about good place for web hosting with php and working mail()...

I have looked at the disable_functions the value is "no value" and sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i". Isn't it just the default? I have also, installed php and apache on my own flaky windows to develope the script. When I call mail() here (where it isn't set up since I haven't botherd with it), php complains about SMPT not being found (or something to that effect). On my ISP it gives me no warning what so ever.

About PEAR, I have come across a method in the manual that would seem to send mail. I am prepared to delve into it, if this would solve my problem. I wonder though if it uses a different way of sending mail compared to mail(). If my ISP has some permissions set in such a way that my mail() call is disallowed, would the same happen if I use PEAR?
Appreciate everyones help with this!
pi

the PEAR mail class is just a convenience wrapper class to make sending HTML mail and attachments easier. The actual mail sending is still done with the mail() function, so if that doesn't work, the PEAR Mail class won't work either.



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Well Richard Heyes' MIME mail class offers an SMTP alternative built into the class. Which is available at http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime .

Its hard to say whether that method would work though, if they don't allow mail, they may not allow sockets, which is what the SMTP portion of Heyes' MIME Mail class relies upon.

: )
Rich

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Thanks to everybody for comments and suggestions. My ISP just notified me that they fixed the problem. I have tested it and it does work now, what a relief!
Thanks again for everyone's help!
pi