> Does ini_set actually change the php.ini file in any way ? The reason I ask > is that after putting in: Yes it does. :) you should have refered to the manual before using the line. Did you write your own myemail@xxxxxxxxxxxx? or you kept that exactly like in code? > > ini_set('sendmail_from', 'myemail@xxxxxxxxxxxx'); > > into a new script which I tested out against, the 'mail' function now > continues to work but no e-mail is received no matter what the recipient > e-mail is. Even is I go back to using my old script which does not have the > 'ini_set' in it, no e-mail actually gets receoved even though 'mail' > succeeds when called. So I have gone from bad to worse and the ini_set seems > to have affected all calls to 'mail' in this way for PHP scripts on the > server. > > Can I correct but somehow stopping PHP ( or may Apache ) and restarting it > again to bring back the original php.ini setting ? For now you can go back to set the php.ini to default with the ini_set function. You can use ini_get to retrieve data from the php.ini configs a phpinfo() will show you all the current settings. Regards Lenin www.twitter.com/nine_L -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php