php unable to sent email

[shihao]

Hi, guys, I try to send a email through php but unfortunately the mail unable to sent. Here is my code, any configuration that I need to change in order to send the email ? Anyone who know please help ? Thanks in advance.

 

<?// send e-mail to ...

$to="me@localhost";

 

// Your subject

$subject="Test";

 

// From

$header="from: your name <your email>";

 

// Your message

$message="Hello \r\n";

$message.="This is test\r\n";

$message.="Test again ";

 

// send email

$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

 

// if your email succesfully sent

if($sentmail){

echo "Email Has Been Sent .";

}

else {

echo "Cannot Send Email ";

}

?>

 

The error message "Cannot Send Email" shown

[seanlim]

Turn on error reporting so that you know what exactly the error is. Check your php.ini, make sure that the proper SMTP server is selected.

[phpretard]

It wont go if this is how you have it..

 

$header="from: your name <your email>";

change to

$header="from: phpretard <email@youremail.com>";

[shihao]

Hi, seanlim, how to turn on the php error report, there is many php.ini file. I didn't use xampp, I had configure seperately.

This is my php.ini,

C:/php/php.ini ,

C:/program Files/apache group/apache2/php.ini

C:/windows/system32/php.ini

C:/Apache/htdocs/phpmyadmin/php.ini

 

and which script that I shall change it?

 

phpretard, I had change it to $header="from: phpretard <ngshihao@yahoo.com>";

it doesn't work either.

 

[seanlim]

Use

 

error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);

 

at the start of your script.

[shihao]

Hi seanlim,

The error message below shown:

"Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()"

 

Anyone who knows please help..

Thanks

[shihao]

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\mail.php on line 19

 

sorry, ommit something..

[shihao]

I try localhost and leave it empty before, the error message still persists

[seanlim]

If you don't have an SMTP server installed and running on your computer, you will have to change the settings in php.ini to point to an SMTP server that is running.

[shihao]

Hi Seanlim,

 

I am not good in this. :'( Can you be more specific? How I know whether my SMTP is installed and running? How I check what is the SMTP that running?

 

Prompt reply is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[scvinodkumar]

do u have hosting server, if yes then assign mail server details

 

SMTP = mail.server.com

smtp_port = port no

 

; For Win32 only.

sendmail_from = email id

 

without these you can't send mail from your local system.

[shihao]

hi scvinodkumar,

 

I just want to do at my own PC, localhost.

Now my parameter is

SMTP: localhost

SMTP_port: 25

 

The error message that I get is:

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\mail.php on line 20

 

[seanlim]

You will need to install and run an SMTP server on your PC then. I have not attempted this before, but I believe it isn't hard.

 

The alternative would be simply to use your ISP's SMTP server, which is what I do when I need to test out PHP mail functions on localhost.

[shihao]

Hi everbody,

 

Window XP SP3 don't have the IIS. I have install the Management and Monitoring tools. Seems that the problem still persists.

 

Anyone has encounter this before? How to install the SMTP server??

 

[shihao]

New error message:

 

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 bosauthsmtp02: Host 115.133.133.26: No unauthenticated relaying permitted in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\mail1.php on line 9

 

[chauffeur]

Go here

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,276125.0.html

 

I put up a script that works.