[function mail() Windows XP]SMTP localhost

[universalbitmapper]

Hi,

I'm trying to send an e-mail from a .php script and ie6 returns this
error:

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 C:\wamp\www\PAMWD\chap11email\sendmail.php
on line 12

I checked php.ini (line 606):

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

OTOH I didn't find "smtp_port" in php.ini

Maybe I should add :80 as port in php.ini?

[Erwin Moller]

universalbitmapper wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to send an e-mail from a .php script and ie6 returns this
error:

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 C:\wamp\www\PAMWD\chap11email\sendmail.php
on line 12
Yes, the IIS return such an error (not IE) when it cannot connect to a
smtp-gateway.

I checked php.ini (line 606):

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
That is wrong
the next line should be
smtp_port = 25

At least that is in every single php.ini file I ever saw. :-)


OTOH I didn't find "smtp_port" in php.ini

Maybe I should add :80 as port in php.ini?

Huh?
port 80 is NOT for smtp.
port 80 is typically used for http.
use 25 for smtp.

And also: Are you sure you are running software on your localhost that
accepts smtp-commands?

If you are unsure, make the smtp-gateway something that you know to work,
like your own ISP-smtp-gateway.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[webramz]

You should have SMTP server running on localhost, or consider using
your ISP SMTP.

Behzad Nategh

[universalbitmapper]

Hi,

Many thanks for your replies.

I added the smtp_port = 25 line in php.ini and restarted WAMP, now I
still get the warning, but I receive the e-mail sent from php.
I have found a "SMTP on Windows" tutorial, it looks easy enough, only I
wonder if this new SMTP service won't conflict with Apache ??
Jean-Benoit MORLA

I been flamed so often I'm a KFNewbee

[Erwin Moller]

universalbitmapper wrote:

Hi,

Many thanks for your replies.

I added the smtp_port = 25 line in php.ini and restarted WAMP, now I
still get the warning, but I receive the e-mail sent from php.
Good so far.
But still a warning?
That is strange: You receive the email, that means everything works as
expected and your localhost can handle the mailrequest, but PHP still
produces the same warning saying it cannot connect to the SMTP-server on
localhost?

I think you still have some problem somehow. :-/
(You guessed)

Maybe you better show us some mailing-code you made so far.
I have found a "SMTP on Windows" tutorial, it looks easy enough, only I
wonder if this new SMTP service won't conflict with Apache ??
No, appache don't care what PHP does when mailing (as far as I know).

If you use a different OS, you need to check the mailsettings. (For *nix you
typpically use a program called 'sendmail', but that is of no concern to
your current problem.).


Jean-Benoit MORLA

I been flamed so often I'm a KFNewbee

By the way: What is a KFNewbee?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[universalbitmapper]

Kentucky
Fried
Newbee

You really opened my eyes with your replies, I discovered that I did
not have Microsoft IIS on my XP home,
so I downloaded Argos SMTP free, now it's installed, I still get error
message "unknown user" from the
php line where the $from variable is set, but I think I'll fix it soon,
just by looking at the tabs and the menu
options I slowly get the whole picture.

Many many thanks from Paris, Kentucky

Jean-Benoit MORLA