Re: Email Handling and Manipulation Question 11

[Dan Kelly]

What do you need to do in order for the mail function to work under
Windows, assuming that
sendmail is not installed on your machine?

A. Install a sendmail server
B. Install Microsoft Exchange
C. Install any mailserver on your computer
D. Change your php.ini configuration
E. Write a script that connects to a public e-mailing service

[Seal Trip]

D. Change your php.ini configuration

[Alex Stetsenko]

Seal, can you provide more details on what the change is and why not A, B, C won't work?

[Seal Trip]

It is my understanding that on windows, the mail functionality MTA is already available. Also php is by default config to work with sendmail. 

So, in the php.ini there is a place where you can set the send_path , from and smtp port. So by POE D seems to make sense to me.

Installing a others will only add more mail functionality but in the end. Php still need configuration to know where the mail client is.

Just my understanding

[Dan Kelly]

On a UNIX-like system, PHP relies on the sendmail application to
handle its e-mailing (even
if sendmail itself is not installed on the server and it’s emulated by
a different Mail Transport
Agent). On Windows machines, however, the mail function actually
performs an SMTP
transaction against the server specified in the SMTP INI setting,
unless a sendmail wrapper is
used. Therefore, Answer D is correct.