Although I have found a few existing threads with this problem, none seem to address the core issue.  Basically, the "[mail function]" section of my php.ini file is NOT being read at all!  When a forum script I was using gave me an error when it tried to send an email to a newly registered user, I tried every solution I could think of, then every solution I could find at php.net and using google.  I then tried my phpinfo.php page (http://www.aethiamud.org/phpinfo.php), which basically just contains the line:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>


And this is what it listed for the mail function entries:

sendmail_from     no value   no value
sendmail_path     no value   no value 
SMTP              localhost  localhost 

I then checked my php.ini file (which is in my windows directory, properly named), and here is what it says:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.aethiamud.org

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = info@aethiamud.org

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =


The only solution I could find related to the php.ini file somehow not being read at all.  That was my first thought, so I tested that theory by changing the 'register_globals' setting from 'off' to 'on', then I restarted the webserver and reloaded the phpinfo.php page.  Lo and behold, register_globals changed from 'off' to 'on'.  Therefore, the php.ini file IS in the right place, and it IS being read.  However, the [mail function] section does not appear to be.  My email server is configured and functioning properly, and works with the cgi-bin version of sendmail just fine, so that can't be it either.

I'm fresh out of ideas here!  Is this a bug, or just something that I'm not seeing?  Any help you could provide would be very much appreciated  :)

--Kris