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Does anyone know what this error means and how it can be solved?

[]Warning: mm_mail(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled in SAFE MODE. in /data/apache/php/mmp_lib/php4u_mail.php on line 7
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This occurs after a new user registration (after pressing the submit button). The site is hosted at Lycos....

Heya,

You need to disable safe mode in your PHP.INI like this...

; Safe Mode
;
safe_mode = Off

; By default, Safe Mode does a UID compare check when
; opening files. If you want to relax this to a GID compare,
; then turn on safe_mode_gid.
safe_mode_gid = Off

Do you have access to PHP.INI? If not, then you'll have to ask Lycos to do this for you

If they won't, then search for a new host ASAP

Btw Pasq, in config.inc.php do you have this set to anything...?

// Some servers require the [][email protected][/] parameter to send email. Normally this is not
// the case so this should stay off. However, if you are not receiving email you can try turning this on.
$config['fifth_mail'] = "";

If yes, is it because you can't send emails otherwise? If you don't need this enabled, then try setting it to nothing like above and see if your errors go away.

In the morning we did receive this message from Lycos:

Hello,

In order to patch a security issue on the PHP 4.3.8, we have this morning upgraded our PHP 4 version to the 4.3.10 (See phpinfo()).

PHP version 5 is available with the extension php5 (See phpinfo() version 5)

The Lycos/Spray tech team

Could this be the problem?

Well the problem is that they have safe mode enabled with the new install, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Any host who intentionally relies upon that is just lazy about security, imo.

// Some servers require the [][email protected][/] parameter to send email. Normally this is not
// the case so this should stay off. However, if you are not receiving email you can try turning this on.
$config['fifth_mail'] = "";


This did work!
Thanks..

We just switched the "[email protected]"-setting to YES, and now it seems to be working

o_~