Sendmail on Windows

Posts: 84 · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:56 pm

A common error I see for people using formmail scripts on Windows is that they are looking to use sendmail to send the messages. Unfortunately, sendmail is not installed on our Windows servers, only are linux servers. If you wish to use a perl script to send mail, you would need to use the Net::SMTP module. You can find more information about that at http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/Net/SMTP.html

Posts: 4 · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:25 am

can you point me toward more complete instructions for confuring a form to use send mail on one of the linux servers?

thanks...

Posts: 178 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:35 am

Since I'm a PHP fan, here's the PHP mail documentation(it's very simple):

http://php.net/mail

Posts: 84 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:24 pm

If you are using a PHP script to send mail, you do not need to worry about configuring your sendmail path or anything. If you decide to use perl though, the path to sendmail on the Linux servers would be:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -froot@domain.com

Posts: 27 · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 1:06 pm

If you decided to use PHP to send mail, then a simple mail command would do it. PHP handles all the extra work for you. Sendmail only comes into place if you need to include it in your desktop application. Here is an example for VBScript:

Code:

Set objMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMsg.Subject = "Subject line"
objMsg.Sender = "me@test.com"
objMsg.To = "test@test.com"
objMsg.TextBody = " Test message"
objMsg.Send