L. Mail Functions
Introduction
The mail() function allows you to send mail.
Requirements
For the Mail functions to be available, PHP must have access
to the sendmail binary on your system during compile time.
If you use another mail program, such as qmail or postfix,
be sure to use the appropriate sendmail wrappers that come
with them. PHP will first look for sendmail in your PATH,
and then in the following: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib.
It's highly recommended to have sendmail available from
your PATH. Also, the user that compiled PHP must have permission
to access the sendmail binary.
Installation
There is no installation needed to use these functions;
they are part of the PHP core.
Runtime Configuration
The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings
in php.ini.
Table 1. Mail configuration options
Name Default Changeable
SMTP "localhost" PHP_INI_ALL
smtp_port "25" PHP_INI_ALL
sendmail_from NULL PHP_INI_ALL
sendmail_path DEFAULT_SENDMAIL_PATH PHP_INI_SYSTEM
For further details and definition of the PHP_INI_* constants
see ini_set().
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