mail() - "failed to receive"????

cubal

I am running php4 on Win2k IIS, and whenever I try to use the mail() function it gives me the error "failed to receive on line...". Wierd thing is, every so often it works...

Is there any limit on the size of message you can send?

Is there anything else I'm missing?

At the mo my function looks like:
$sent = mail( $home, $ordernumber, $message);

I've tried it with quotes around the variable, and without, and that doesn't make any diff...

Help!!??!!
Thanks,
Matt.

Anon

Have you setup the SMTP settings in the PHP.INI file?

by default its set to the localhost

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

if the SMTP host is not there mail() returns an error message about not connecting on what ever line mail() is on.

cubal

Yeah, I wondered about that...
That was the problem the first time, but I fixed that.. or so I thought.

Because I'm too cheap too have an ISP-provided e-mail, I use Yahoo for mine, so I set my server to smtp.mail.yahoo.com (which works just fine for my e-mail clients (linux and win98). I wondered if maybe IIS on Win2k (the machine set up as a server) treats things differently, but it shouldn't should it?
I tried fiddling with that, but nothing.

The weird thing is that every so often it gets as far as trying to send, but reports a server time-out... Outlook express has no probs accessing the server at the same time tho.

cubal

Nah, it's alright, it was a prob with IIS - it obviously doesn't like third-party smtp servers... so I set up it's integral one properly, and now it's sweet.

Matt.

P.S. Thanks for the advice tho... it did help 🙂