Larry Kooper

[Sending email from a Windows server using PHP]

I got the cryptic error message above while trying to send email using PHP from a Windows server.  Turned out that the problem was that php.ini had set the sendmail_from entry to the silly value “me@localhost.com.”  Since this is a shared hosting situation, we couldn’t change php.ini directly.  However, we were able to use the ini_set function in the script that sent the mail:

ini_set(”sendmail_from”, “a-real-address@the-actual-domain.com”);

This fixed the problem.

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