The mail() function

[Anon]

Hi,

I've got a problem with the mail() function in PHP. I use PHP with Windows 2000 Professional.

In my php.ini file, which I've placed in C:\WINNT, are the following lines:

SMTP = smtp.worldonline.dk ;for win32 only
sendmail_from = [e-mail] ;for win32 only

A simple script like the following gives this error:

Warning: Server Error in e:\mail.phtml on line 3

The code
<?php
mail("[e-mail]", "Test", "This is a test!", "From: Kenneth<[e-mail]>\n");
?>
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Hope someone has an answer...
By the way: I use Apache 1.3.19 as well.

Could there be anything else in php.ini that I need to configure???

Kenneth

[Anon]

Can't see anything wrong with that.
I just checked in a book and the only thing that it said was that if worldonline don't allow relays your mail willget bounced but it shouldn't cause that error ?
I can only think of changing things in your code like take out the From bit and see what happens?

I have no trouble with my setup on Win98 through tele danmarks servers so who knows?

Hope you get it sorted

Nick

[Anon]

Thank you,

it seems like WorldOnline's mail server won't relays my e-mails, so I had to set up my own smtp-server...

And it works great (after a few hours of trying 🙂

Anyway, the error DOES occour due to the fact that the server won't relay mails from an "untrusted" domain!!??
So I had to set up localhost as at trusted domain and then it worked just fine..

Once again - thank you! Your reply was very helpful

Kenneth

[Anon]

Yes, Kenneth, that's was the problem with me as well, I was always getting "server error" messages. All I had to do was to allow relaying (in SMTP properties) for localhost (and of course set SMTP= localhost in PHP.INI). Thanks, Tomas