[SOLVED] Mailing through Exchange Server

[BhA]

Hi guys,

 

I was working on writing  a little application for my firm and I got stuck at my final module that has to mail some information to our employees through the Exchange Server. Seems like everything is working perfectly fine except the mailing part. I used to use regular mail function but it didn't worked in this scenario.

 

I am using WinBinder to compile the php code. But I couldn't figure out whether the problem is sourced from my code, from the WinBinder libraries, or from the exchange server. I spent my whole day researching about different mailing methods. But I simply couldn't managed to send the mail. (Exchange Server has its own box not on the localhost).

 

Here is the part of the code I'm stucked at:

 

		
case ID_VACATION: //VACATION - TIME CONTROLLER

require("C:\WinBinder\phpcode\include\phpmailer\class.phpmailer.php");

$db = odbc_connect("resumelink","","");

    if ( $db != FALSE)
{
	 wb_message_box($window, "Sending Emails to the employees... \n");
}
else
{
	 wb_message_box($window, "Connection failed to the database.");
}

     $result = odbc_exec($db, "SELECT email, vactime FROM vac_time");

while ($row = odbc_fetch_array($result))
{	
       
	$vacation = $row["vactime"];
	$email = $row["email"];

//            wb_message_box($window, "$email");    //value control
//            wb_message_box($window, "$vacation"); //value control


$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->From     = "admin@companyname.com";
$mail->FromName = "Business Unit";
$mail->Host     = "companysmtpaddress";
             $mail->Username = "username";
    	$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->Mailer   = "smtp";


       $text_body  = "Hello, \n\n";
       $text_body .= "You have $vacation hours of vacation time.\n\n";
       $text_body .= "Sincerely, \n";

       $mail->Body = $text_body;
       $mail->AddAddress($email);

       if(!$mail->Send()){
           wb_message_box($window, "There has been a mail error sending to $email");}
       else{
   wb_message_box($window, "Mail sent to $email");
   }

}


		break;

 

 

Now some of you might say why don't you go post this over to WinBinder forums. But as far as I know this board is much helpful than the rest of the php forums and I hope someone can guide me through this problem.

 

 

PS: I edited the smtp section of  php.ini already and restarted my web services didn't helped.

[BhA]

ok problem solved. I hate finding the solutions after searching for it whole day and post a help message in the forums

 

The problem was I put the whole address of the smtp server. Changing it to only the computer name that the exchange server resides helped.

 

Well maybe this helps someone.