Quote by mr.m00: don't i have enough permissons to canfigure the email thing ?`im very confused
Your problem is with PEAR, not with the email configuration. PEAR is a collection of classes written in PHP (similar to Perl's CPAN, if you happen to know what that is). Geeklog uses certain PEAR classes to send all the emails, so as long as the PEAR setup is not correct, you can not send emails.
If you set $_CONF['have_pear'] = true; you should not get the error message you quoted (you would only get it for $_CONF['have_pear'] = false; ), so please try this setting (= true) again.
bye, Dirk