[SOLVED] mail()

[DataRater]

I'm using PHP 5 on a Dell Ubuntu laptop.

 

I've tried keeping it simple with something like this

 

$to      = '[email protected]';

$subject = 'the subject';

$message = 'hello';

 

mail($to, $subject, $message);

 

and get false returned and the email does not arrive at the destination.

 

Have you any thoughts regarding what I need to look at to get this working?

 

 

[DataRater]

I've looked at the php.ini and there is no

 

sendmail_from

 

defined.

 

Is that correct? I'm wondering how it knows which default email address to use if none is passed in the the headers parameter (which I haven't used).

[DataRater]

Ahh the following is set in the php.ini

 

Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

 

but there is no sendmail at that location.

 

I've done a 'find' for sendmail but it didn't come back with any results. Has anyone got any ideas how I can find or install sendmail on my Ubuntu laptop? I would have thought it was standard though.

 

 

[DataRater]

OK I've got to install sendmail