mail() with authentication doesn't work

[Nelliwinne]

I do not have proper excellence at php programming. I wrote below script after reading several articles. Anyway that form-to-mail script doesn't work. form action is connected to following code

<?php
require_once "send1.php";
 
$from = "Sandra Sender <[e-mail]>"; 
$to = "Ramona Recipient <[e-mail]>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
 
$host = " mail.myweb.com";
$username = "[e-mail]";
$password = "mypassword";
 
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
  'To' => $to, 
  'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
  array ('host' => $host,
    'auth' => true,
    'username' => $username,
    'password' => $password)); 
 
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
 
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>"); 
}
?>
 

send1.php is as follows.

<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Hi!"; 
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>"); 
}
?>
 

this gets a error massage as follows.

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in ....
 
Message delivery failed...
 
 
Fatal error: Class 'Mail' not found in D:\websites\fff\fff.com\wwwroot\send.php on line 16
 

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I don't have a server and i'm taking server from a remote company. they says mail server authentication is the prob. anyway it doesn't work.

please help me...

thanks.

[Atli]

Hi. Welcome to TSDN!

Your fist warning says it all, really:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in ....
 

So, as the error mentions, try giving the "smtp_port" and "SMTP" settings proper values.
Like for example:

ini_set("smtp_port", 25);
ini_set("SMTP", "mail.example.mysmtpserver.com");
 

These values are obviously made up. You will have to replace them with real values.