mail() function

[lurryhomwa]

hi people sorry to bother you with this Question but i am straggling i am nbew to php but i realy keen to use it, the thing is i am trying to use the mail function to receive information from a form but nothing seems to work my code is like this and my php. ini file lookes like this respectively.

<? 
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'];
 
  mail ("[e-mail]", "Feedback From Results", 
  $message, "from: $email");
 
 
?>
 

php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP =smtp.blueyonder.co.uk
 
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]
 

rember i am using my localhost.

please help.
Lurryhomes

[epots9]

hi people sorry to bother you with this Question but i am straggling i am nbew to php but i realy keen to use it, the thing is i am trying to use the mail function to receive information from a form but nothing seems to work my code is like this and my php. ini file lookes like this respectively.

<? 
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'];
 
  mail ("[e-mail]", "Feedback From Results", 
  $message, "from: $email");
 
 
?>
 

php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP =smtp.blueyonder.co.uk
 
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from =[e-mail]
 

rember i am using my localhost.

please help.
Lurryhomes

Hi lurryhomwa welcome to TSDN,

try this:
[PHP]
mail ("[e-mail]", "Feedback From Results", $message, "from:".$email);
[/PHP]

good luck

[lurryhomwa]

Hi lurryhomwa welcome to TSDN,

try this:
[PHP]
mail ("[e-mail]", "Feedback From Results", $message, "from:".$email);
[/PHP]

good luck

cheers mate

but this is what come back

Warning: Failed to Connect in l:\program files\webroot\sendmail.php on line 5

so i am not sure is there something with my php/apache i dont know?

[epots9]

ok, try removing the "from".
[PHP]mail ("[e-mail]", "Feedback From Results", $message);[/PHP] since the from is already in your php.ini

and/or in your php.ini, what is your smtp_port set to? (default: smtp_port = 25)

[lurryhomwa]

ok, try removing the "from".
[PHP]mail ("[e-mail]", "Feedback From Results", $message);[/PHP] since the from is already in your php.ini

and/or in your php.ini, what is your smtp_port set to? (default: smtp_port = 25)

that still did not work but
SMTP =smtp.blueyonder.co.uk

that is what i set to in php.ini file

do u have any exmple of how ur php.in file will look like on the mail function

[epots9]

SMTP = my_outgoing_mail_server
smtp_port = 25

all u have to do is add "smtp_port = 25" (no quotes) under smtp if it isn't already there.