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I went looking for the error message I've been getting - this one:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class mail_rfc822 in d:websitesmillerplacebridge.comwwwsystempearMailRFC822.php on line 59

I found this reference to a known bug on the Pear site:

Description:
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When I try to create mailer instance, I always get error message Fatal
error: Cannot redeclare class mail in PEARPEARMail.php on line
33

This is because files Mail.php (base PEAR Mail class) and class mail.php
used as engine to PHP mail() function have the same name under Windows.

The temporary solution is to remove or comment
require_once 'Mail.php'; line from mail.php (mail() engine script)

Reproduce code:
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$MailingEngine = &Mail::factory('mail');

Expected result:
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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class mail in PEARPEARMail.php on
line 33

So I commented out the reference to 'include_once( 'Mail.php' );' in lib-common. php, and now I get this error message:

Undefined class name 'mail' in D:websitesmillerplacebridge.comwwwlib-common.php on line 3198

Am I on the right track with this? Anybody? TIA.

(Edited to remove quotes in an effort to get the body of message to appear.)

-Don

This "solution" doesn't seem to make sense ... If you don't include the Mail.php, which includes the definition of the Mail class, then of course PHP complains that it doesn't know how do create a new object of the Mail class ...

One workaround would be to put the complete path to Mail.php in the require once.

Another should be to use the server's version of the PEAR classes (i.e set $_CONF['have_pear'] = true). At least that's what's working for me on MacOS X (which has the same problem with a case-insensitive file system).

Sorry, haven't had the time to look into this in any detail.

bye, Dirk

As always, Dirk, i appreciate the help. You're a patient man.

One more dumb question - which 'Mail.php' do I include the path to? I found 3 - 1 in 'Admin', 1 in 'system/pear', and 1 in 'system/pear/mail.'

I'm confused as to which one I should be referring to.

-Don

sytem/pear/Mail.php is the one I meant.

The pear/Mail/mail.php seems to be an internal file ("internal PHP-mail() implementation of the PEAR Mail:: interface") and admin/mail.php is Geeklog's "Mail Users" functionality.

bye, Dirk

Thanks. I'll be sure to let you know how it turns out.

-Don