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PHP

Posted by Freddy Heppell
Freddy Heppell
9,753 Points

Mailing doesn't work with PHP

I've just started the advanced PHP tutorial. Every time I run the contact form I get this error:

mailtodisk.exe - No Disk There is no disk in this drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk3\DR3

I have discovered it can be caused by a php.ini issue, here is the relevant section

; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program filesC:\xampp) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:\sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path.  
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)
;sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the C:\xampp\mailoutput folder
sendmail_path="C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

The problem is, the sendmail.exe and mailtodisk.exe both exist in the locations shown. Which one do I comment out?

1 Answer

Younes RAFIE
Younes RAFIE
Courses Plus Student 2,055 Points

I think that you need to remove the last back slash from your file path, because a file end with an extension.