mail() .. Failed to Connect in

mattat119

im new to php...

when try to run this simple mail script

i get

Warning: Failed to Connect in C:\apache\htdocs\mail.php on line 7

thats the mail(... line

im sure it has something to do with my php.ini configuration

can anyone help
cheers mat

Quevas

Sounds like there isn't a mail server...

juschillinnow

I'm getting ready to set a mail thing up to. How do you define a mailserver?

Like one of my web hosts gives me that values to email throught their account.

So if it was:

me.mail.goo

How would I use this to send mail through?

Quevas

"failed to connect" means, I think, that no programs for sending mails are installed on the machine (or even that they are not well configured).
I wrote my previus post assuming that mattat119's page is running on his pc.
So maybe he has no programs, like Postfix or Sendmail, to send mails.

I don't know how to send mail through smtp by code, anyway with some hosts the mail() function is enough.

Scott_J

You have to set up the link to either your webserver in windows or to your mail program in UNIX/LINUX, the one we use is sendmail.

Look for the following pieces of code in your php.ini file

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = 'MAILSERVER-NAME'

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = mail@mailname.com

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

and edit them as you need to

🙂