[PLUG] mailing from within PHP on Ubuntu

[Auke Kok]

tkubaska at charter.net wrote:
> I'm stuck ... I'm not even sure where to look any more, but I'm sure what I want to do is simple and has to be described somewhere.
> 
> I want to send mail from within a php script. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper with Apache and PHP5.  I have a PHP example, which does echo the right stuff to the screen but the mail never gets set. My mailer is evolution (whcih on its own picks up mail just fine). I don't know how to invoke it from within php.
> 
> The script invokes mail in its last line (which apparently, I don't have?)

that requires a form of sendmail on your machine, be it postfix or any of the other smtp 
agents available. You can't have php use evolution ;)

Auke