a4avaiz Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Hello. I am new to SMTP and not sure exactly how it works.Basically, I have a Win2003 box running Apache. It hosts a community website I made for my school (www.iit.edu) and they have provided a subdomain as our address (xxxxxx.iit.edu)I have made a contact form, but when i give submit, it gives the warning [code]Failed to connect to mailserver at "students.iit.edu" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" [/code]. I want the details from the users to me mailed to my IIT email account.according to IIT, our smtp address is students.iit.edu.i have no idea why it was not working. then I did a search in php freaks before i started this thread. i found this [url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99143.0.html]http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99143.0.html[/url] post, i got an idea of whats going on but couldnt fix the problem. I also went ahead and installed a SMTP server (do i need that?). I ran the same contact form home from my laptop(localhost) using my ISP's SMTP address and it worked. But I am unable to run the form from the server.I know I have a router thats forwarding all the requests to my server. Does it play a role in the SMTP settings?. Can anyone give me an idea which address so i have to put exactly in the SMTP field of the php.ini file?. I am way confused. And how would i configure the SMTP server if i needed it.Would really appreciate any reply so that I can try out something. Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/22790-cant-get-contact-form-to-send-mail-smtp-settings-driving-nuts/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destruction Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 If they have a router setup with forwarding, they'll need to make sure they're forwarding traffic for TCP Port 25. Normally if it's just a website they'll forward TCP Port 80. This would cause a failure to connect.HTHDest Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/22790-cant-get-contact-form-to-send-mail-smtp-settings-driving-nuts/#findComment-102669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
a4avaiz Posted October 2, 2006 Author Share Posted October 2, 2006 please tell me what do i do? whats the other way around? ive tried to set the smtp port to 80, but doesnt connect...thanks.. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/22790-cant-get-contact-form-to-send-mail-smtp-settings-driving-nuts/#findComment-102742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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