email to myself

[Pedestrian]

Hello,

 

I'm very new to php, so I apologize for the primitive nature of this question. I am using php's mail() function to send an email to myself with no success. Part of my code looks like this:

 

$toaddress = "pedestrian@sidewalklyrics.com";

$fromaddress = "From: webserver@example.com";

$subject = "Feedback from web site";

$mailcontent = "Customer name: ".$name."\r\n".

  "Customer email: ".$email."\r\n".

  "Customer comments: ".$feedback."\r\n";

 

mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress);

 

My php.ini file looks like this:

 

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

SMTP = localhost

smtp_port = 25

 

; For Win32 only.

; sendmail_from = pedestrian@sidewlaklyrics.com

 

But I only get a warning:

 

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:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\processfeedback.php on line 16

 

Would you happen to know what the problem is?

 

~P

[fry2010]

Make sure your firewall isnt blocking that port. Not likly to be that though. Try to send yourself a simple message, eg just a standard string that says 'TESTING EMAIL'. I think the problem is with the double quotes in your message and using periods with variable names.

[the182guy]

This isn't going to work unless you have an SMTP server setup on your development machine.

 

Try using your ISP email settings and using that email address to send the mails from.