sorry in advance for the length, formatting and possible redundancy of this message.
Anyway, on Windows, leaving "sendmail_from" blank and setting a "From:" header in the extra headers parameter doesn't work. test.php: <?php mail('[EMAIL PROTECTED]','subject','body',"From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); /* Warning: mail(): "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\dev\quiktests\test.php on line 3 */ ??--> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28976 there are also a couple user notes on the mail manual page to the effect of "use ini_set()", but that seems messy, especially for distributed scripts to do a check everytime they send mail(): if(PHP_OS == 'Win' && empty(ini_get("sendmail_from")){ ini_set("sendmail_from", $tempFromAddress); } I don't know C (or any cvs/patch tools), but here's what I think is going on: in ext/standard/mail.c we find the following code (notice the last argument to TSendMail() is NULL): [code] .... PHPAPI int php_mail(char *to, char *subject, char *message, char *headers, char *extra_cmd TSRMLS_DC) { ..... if (!sendmail_path) { #if (defined PHP_WIN32 || defined NETWARE) /* handle old style win smtp sending */ if (TSendMail(INI_STR("SMTP"), &tsm_err, &tsm_errmsg, headers, subject, to, message, NULL, NULL, NULL) == FAILURE) { .... [/code] unfortunately, in win32/sendmail.c we find this: [code] .... PHPAPI int TSendMail(char *host, int *error, char **error_message, char *headers, char *Subject, char *mailTo, char *data, char *mailCc, char *mailBcc, char *mailRPath) { .... /* Fall back to sendmail_from php.ini setting */ if (mailRPath && *mailRPath) { RPath = estrdup(mailRPath); } else if (INI_STR("sendmail_from")) { RPath = estrdup(INI_STR("sendmail_from")); } else { if (headers) { efree(headers); efree(headers_lc); } *error = W32_SM_SENDMAIL_FROM_NOT_SET; return FAILURE; } .... [/code] it seems mailRPath will always be NULL and "sendmail_from" will always be "fallen back" to, and thus you get an error. maybe, probably, i'm missing something, but at the very least, the error message ("custom "From:" header missing") or the documentation could be altered. thanks. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php