Failed to connect to mailserver

[Sujeetha]

Hello all,
We are, a bunch of college students, trying to host a website for our dept symposium. We are using php for web development. We wanted to send a mail for those who have been accepted for a competion. We tried the following php code

<?php

$mail_to="[e-mail]";
$mail_from="[e-mail]";
$mail_sub="registration result";
$mail_mesg1="Your request for registration has been accepted. \nLogin to access your account";
$mail_mesg2="Your request for registration has been denied. \nContact Registeration team or retry with valid details";


if(mail($mail_to,$mail_sub,$mail_mesg1,"From:$mail _from/r/nReply-to:$mail_from"))
{
print "<script>window.alert(\"Mail successfully sent\");";
print "</script>";
}
else
{
print "<script>window.alert(\"Retry sending\");";

print "</script>";
}


?>

we had the corresponding html form too, but anyway we hardcoded the informations. we get this following 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:\xampp\htdocs\try\tmail.php on line 16

We use

Xampp for php, MySql for database, Windows XP operating system.

Till what I read from some searches is that we need a mail server and we have to configure that for some settings. We have no idea what mail server to use or where to find. It would be really cool and great if any of you guys could help us.

Thanks
Suji

[Lumpy]

Xampp comes with Mercury mail server I think it is. Configure that and make sure that it is running and working. To accomplish this, I would check out the website or something, I don't really know what would all have to be done for this part.

Once that is done, you may also want to verify your mail function settings in the php.ini, that they match up with your mail server.

After that, if the mail server is functioning, it should work for you.

Hope this helps to get you in the write direction.

[Sujeetha]

Xampp comes with Mercury mail server I think it is. Configure that and make sure that it is running and working. To accomplish this, I would check out the website or something, I don't really know what would all have to be done for this part.

Once that is done, you may also want to verify your mail function settings in the php.ini, that they match up with your mail server.

After that, if the mail server is functioning, it should work for you.

Hope this helps to get you in the write direction.

Hi,

I tried running the Mercury mail but i got this error. Again I dont have a clue what it means. Thanks for helping me with this stuff.

SMTP server response: 553 We do not relay non-local mail, sorry. in

Thanks
Suji