whastings

I did not realize that single and double quotes meant different things. Wow, thanks! That did the trick!

Alright, well thanks for at-least confirming my code does in-fact work. I will just have to keep tinkering until I figure out whats wrong. I also noticed I did not have the php_openssl.dll enabled within my php.ini file, and once I edited it I managed to get a crypto error result which I fixed which sent me back to the time-out response. I may just not have a type of authentication or module needed turned enabled/compiled in my version of php. Which would not make much sense as I am already using Amazons SES service on a open source forum software. I even compared my code against theirs and don't see anything that should effect my result. I have also uploaded the files to that same web-server to see if its just my local version of php or apache as I run nginx and php on my box. Anyway, thanks again! If you do think of anything or for me to try I would be hopelessly grateful!

I opened up a telnet window to get to the EHLO screen and it worked. I am getting the EHLO response. Still not sure why it times out :x

I am still new to php, but have a fair amount of experience in other languages. Anyway I decided to start working on a CMS for my own site, and I will be using Amazons SES service to be sending emails. I have this function written to send an email to the user when they register so they can activate their account. But it would be great if I could get passed asking the SMTP server 'EHLO' and not getting a 421 timed out error code. function smtp_parse($socket, $message, $response) { global $mailSettings; if($message !== null) fputs($socket, $message . $mailSettings['newLine']); echo('Message => ' . $message . $mailSettings['newLine'] . '<br />'); $server_response = ''; while(substr($server_response, 3, 1) != ' ') { if(!($server_response = fgets($socket, 256))) return false; } echo('Response => ' . $server_response . '<br /><br />'); if($response == substr($server_response, 0, 3)) return true; else return false; } function smtp_mail($to, $to_name, $subject, $body) { global $mailSettings; if(!($socket = fsockopen($mailSettings['host'], $mailSettings['port'], $errno, $errstr, $mailSettings['timeout']))) { return false; } if(!smtp_parse($socket, null, '220')) return false; //it times out here! if(smtp_parse($socket, 'EHLO ' . $mailSettings['host'], '250')) { //Never makes it to here smtp_parse($socket, 'AUTH LOGING', '334'); smtp_parse($socket, base64_encode($mailSettings['user']), '334'); smtp_parse($socket, $mailSettings['pass'], '334'); smtp_parse($socket, 'MAIL FROM: my name <' . $mailSettings['return'] . '>', '250'); smtp_parse($socket, 'RCPT TO: ' . $to_name . ' <' . $to . '>', '250'); smtp_parse($socket, 'DATA', '354'); $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . $mailSettings['newLine']; $headers .= "Connect-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"; $headers .= "To: " . $to_name . " <" . $to . ">" . $mailSettings['newLine']; $headers .= "From: my name <" . $mailSettings['return'] . ">" . $mailSettings['newLine']; $headers .= "Subject: " . $subject . $mailSettings['newLine']; $body = strtr($body, array('\r\n' . '.' => '\r\n' . '..')); smtp_parse($socket, $headers, '250'); smtp_parse($socket, $body, '250'); smtp_parse($socket, '.', '250'); smtp_parse($socket, 'QUIT', null); fclose($socket); return true; } return false; } $mailSettings = array('host' => 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com', 'port' => '25', 'timeout' => '2', 'identity' => 'email-smtp.amazonaws.com', 'newLine' => '\r\n', 'user' => '...', 'pass' => '...', 'return' => 'noreply@domain'); The debug response I am getting from my test email I am trying to send is I am probably doing something wrong, I don't know. I am trying to avoid using classes like PHPMailer, SwiftMailer, ... because I would like to learn how to do it myself. Any suggestions, pointers, and help would be great. But as I said I can't get past the EHLO to the SMTP server, as it times out afterwards.