actual emailing

[manix]

Hey, I want to ask how can I actually send emails using php ?  All tutorials show on how to send emails via outlook and I don't want that, I want to send emails from say [email protected], how do I do that ?

[voip03]

mail() function

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_ajax_database.asp

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[manix]

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\xampp\htdocs\test2.php on line 6

[voip03]

Open the “php.ini“

Search for the attribute called “SMTP” in the php.ini file.

“SMTP=localhost“. change the localhost to the smtp server name of your ISP

“smtp_port” which should be set to 25

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=340060.msg1603137#msg1603137

[IrOnMaSk]

what's the code or example you follwing?

most likely you haven't enable all the stuff in php.ini

[manix]

how do I get my exact ISP name without having to contact them? I'm using a rooter

[IrOnMaSk]

how do I get my exact ISP name without having to contact them? I'm using a rooter

who's your ISP? What mailing are you using? gmail, yahoo, hotmail? you can just search for their mailing server online

[manix]

I'm using abv.bg, I don't get what I need to change :/

[IrOnMaSk]

I'm using abv.bg, I don't get what I need to change :/

what is your email address you using to send the email?

for example '[email protected]'

what's your domain.com? after the @sign

[manix]

yeah it's abv.bg ... >.> [email protected]

[IrOnMaSk]

so you need their outgoing mail server, and port number

a quick search I found that this is their out going mail server : smtp.abv.bg

and their port is : 465

so go to your php.ini (in your xamp folder)

and search for:

SMTP=localhost (change the localhost to smtp.abv.bg)

and the port number, change it to 465

lastly they use secure socket layer ssl

search for 'extension=php_openssl.dll' and uncomment it by delet the ; infront of it....

follow so far?

if that's not working you have to confirm with their outgoing mail server that's it's definitly smtp.abv.bg

[manix]

erm still giving me that error, but this doesn't make sense, how can I send an email from some account without entering the password ?

[IrOnMaSk]

Hey, I want to ask how can I actually send emails using php ?  All tutorials show on how to send emails via outlook and I don't want that, I want to send emails from say [email protected], how do I do that ?

oh, you can't send email using somebody else's address!!! lol

I was assuming you're using your own email address... and yes you need the password, if its your email address use your password to that address.

and can you post the source code that you're working with?

 

[manix]

Well it is my e-mail I just haven't input the password anywhere O.o mainly cuz I dunno where (embarassed right now)

 

I'm just testing it, trying to get it to work

 

<? mail('[email protected]', 'subject', 'message'); ?>

[IrOnMaSk]

don't be embarassed... if you don't ask you don't know

this code is wrong

<? mail('[email protected]', 'subject', 'message'); ?>

that's not all the code that neccessary to send email... It need heading in there...

here follow this example...

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_mail.asp

and don't forget to do the setting from here

so go to your php.ini (in your xamp folder)

and search for:

SMTP=localhost (change the localhost to smtp.abv.bg)

smtp_port = (after the = replace with 465)

sendmail_from = [email protected] (your email addres the [email protected])

lastly they use secure socket layer ssl

search for 'extension=php_openssl.dll' and uncomment it by delet the ; infront of it....

let me know

[manix]

I don't get it again... this is my line

 

<? mail('[email protected]', 'subject', 'message', 'From:[email protected]'); ?>

 

and I get this

 

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()

 

here's the php.ini

 

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

; http://php.net/smtp

SMTP = smtp.abv.bg

; http://php.net/smtp-port

smtp_port = 465

 

; For Win32 only.

; http://php.net/sendmail-from

;sendmail_from = [email protected]

[IrOnMaSk]

the error show that the changes is not saved... You still have localhost as your smtp and the port is the still 25... it should be SMTP = smtp.abv.bg and smtp_port = 465. Make sure that those two are changes... go back in there see if the two lines are changed. if not change it and saves and restart the xamp server...

after that try this one for me... just copy and paste it into your page. and run it (assuming that "[email protected]" is a real email address)

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "mail testing";
$message = "Did you get this message?";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";	
$headers .= 'From: <[email protected]'>' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

 

most important make sure the smtp and the port is changed and saved

[IrOnMaSk]

oh and this line also ";extension=php_openssl.dll" delete the ; infront of it

[manix]

Erm okay I restarted the server and now my code loads forever and nothing happens,

 

your code gives this

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\xampp\htdocs\test2.php on line 13

 

the line that I am supposed to remove the ; from does not exist :/

 

EDIT: and yes both emails are mine and exist

 

EDIT2: I fixed some typos in your code and it loads forever too now

[IrOnMaSk]

I tried Xamp and hated it lol... been using Wamp

you sure couldn't find ;extension=php_openssl.dll ?

try to search ssl in php.ini

but we're getting somewhere:

the error just checking to see that we have the from: in the header...

so after restart the server, test it see wat's the error is. I have one more solution...

and if you could post all the code in the test2.php here it would be great help for me !!! cuz then i know what's in line 13 that gave the error

 

 

 

[manix]

It doesn't find ssl either, I tried finding it, believe me. Here are all php extensions whatever that is (I guess it's supposed to be there)

 

 

extension=php_bz2.dll

;extension=php_curl.dll

;extension=php_dba.dll

extension=php_mbstring.dll

extension=php_exif.dll

;extension=php_fileinfo.dll

extension=php_gd2.dll

extension=php_gettext.dll

;extension=php_gmp.dll

extension=php_imap.dll

;extension=php_interbase.dll

;extension=php_ldap.dll

;extension=php_mssql.dll

;extension=php_mysql_mysqlnd.dll

extension=php_mysql.dll

;extension=php_mysqli_mysqlnd.dll

extension=php_mysqli.dll

;extension=php_oci8.dll

;extension=php_pdo_firebird.dll

;extension=php_pdo_mssql.dll

;extension=php_pdo_mysql_mysqlnd.dll

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll

;extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll

extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll

;extension=php_pdo_sqlite_external.dll

;extension=php_pgsql.dll

;extension=php_pspell.dll

;extension=php_shmop.dll

;extension=php_snmp.dll

extension=php_soap.dll

extension=php_sockets.dll

extension=php_sqlite.dll

extension=php_sqlite3.dll

;extension=php_sybase_ct.dll

;extension=php_tidy.dll

extension=php_xmlrpc.dll

 

[PECL]

extension=php_ming.dll

;extension=php_pdo_oci.dll

;extension=php_pdo_oci8.dll

 

 

and it's not giving me any error it's just loading like when you have an inifinite loop

 

here's the file

 

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<? // mail('[email protected]', 'super si gotin', 'naistina e taka', 'From:[email protected]'); 
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "mail testing";
$message = "Did you get this message?";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";	
$headers .= 'From: <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>
</body>
</html>

[IrOnMaSk]

oh forget about extension=php_openssl.dll, it's built into the xamp not like wamp...

so when you test the page, it came up blank right? that's not a loop, there's no loop in the code...

if there's no error, check your email it should be there with the "Did you get this message?" message in the body of the email...

if you want to see if the email sent just echo "email sent" after the mail();

let me know

[manix]

no man, it's not sent the page loads, I get the loading cursor and the refresh button is disabled so it's still loading

[IrOnMaSk]

in that case it's not loading lol it probly is freezing  ... so your xamp server is back up right? Probly need to x out that browser and retest it.

if you're using windows, you're prbly need to restart the whole computer... restart usually fix 90% the problems in windows 

[manix]

restart usually fix 90% the problems in windows 

amen lol

 

Forget xampp (by your words I guess ms invented xampp lol)

 

My hosting provider is supposed to have those settings configured I guess, all I wanna know is are you sure this is the correct syntax to send an email, because what's bothering me is how can I send an email from [email protected] without entering the password anywhere?