smtp server error

[Mike Obiku]

First of all, I'm new to PHP. For my website I have some PHP scripts to run
a photo database. New users have to register them selfs. After registring
the new user is getting an e-mail maid by an php script. But if the user
clicks on the button to sent his info, so the PHP can sent him an e-mail, it
always results in this error
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 Request action aborted; local
processing error in {the file en line number}
In the PHP.ini smtp = localhost is set {I'm running apache under windows XP
pro) and have a mail server on the same server.

Hope someone can help me.

Sorry for the bad english..

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[Jeffrey Silverman]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:06:31 +0100, Mike Obiku wrote:

First of all, I'm new to PHP. For my website I have some PHP scripts to run
a photo database. New users have to register them selfs. After registring
the new user is getting an e-mail maid by an php script. But if the user
clicks on the button to sent his info, so the PHP can sent him an e-mail, it
always results in this error
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 Request action aborted; local
processing error in {the file en line number}
In the PHP.ini smtp = localhost is set {I'm running apache under windows XP
pro) and have a mail server on the same server.

Hope someone can help me.

Sorry for the bad english..

No problem, your English is better than most of my colleagues.

I don't know if I can help but here are some questions for you anyways:

1) What mail (SMTP) Server are you using?

2) Could you post the relevant PHP code, please?

3) Are you able to send mail locally, from, for example Eudora or Mozilla
mail using "localhost" as the SMTP server in the configuration for your
email application?

If not, then there is something wrong with your localhost mail setup.

later...

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[Mike Obiku]

Jeffrey Silverman wrote:

No problem, your English is better than most of my colleagues. Thanks for the complement

<snip>
1) What mail (SMTP) Server are you using? I use ISMail, from Instantservers.
2) Could you post the relevant PHP code, please?
This is a little peace of the PHP code
if ($age == "adult") {
if ($Globals['emailverify'] == "yes") {
$query = "SELECT userid FROM {$Globals['pp_db_prefix']}users
WHERE username='$pick_username' AND joindate='$joindate' LIMIT 1";
$resulta = ppmysql_query($query,$link);
list( $theuid ) = mysql_fetch_row($resulta);
ppmysql_free_result($resulta);

require_once("languages/{$Globals['pplang']}/emails.php");

$email_from = "From: {$Globals['adminemail']}";
$letter = $Globals['pp_lang']['emailreg'];
$subject = $Globals['pp_lang']['emailrsub'];

mail( $email, $subject, $letter, $email_from ); <===

$done = "{$Globals['pp_lang']['thanksreg']}<p>

<a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/index.php\"><font
class=\"medium\">
{$Globals['pp_lang']['retfront']}
{$Globals['galleryname']}</font></a>";

diewell( $done );
}
}
The line with the arrow is the line where the browser normaly returns the
following fault:
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 Request action aborted; local
processing error in c:\www\register.php on line 491
If I change teh smtp setting in the php.ini file to smtp = (ipadres of
mailserver), it results in the same fault as if i have set smtp = localhost.
When I change it to my ISP mailserver, no mail is sent.
3) Are you able to send mail locally, from, for example Eudora or
Mozilla mail using "localhost" as the SMTP server in the
configuration for your email application? If you mean, can you sent a e-mail form one pc to a other pc whitin my
domain. Yes. I have 3 pc, one of them is my web and e-mail server. On that
pc I changed smtp setting in the php.ini to localhost an after that to the
IP of the PC. In both cases it return an error. If I change it to the
mailserver of my ISP, it doesn't return a error. Only no one wil get a
email.
If not, then there is something wrong with your localhost mail setup.

later...

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