Problem sending Email in WinXP with IIS5

[shelbytll]

Environment:
WinXP
IIS 5 with PHP 4.3 SAPI

Code:
<?
mail("[e-mail]", "My Subject", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3");
?>

Error:
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() in D:\Projects\test.php on line 2

Anyone know how to solve this?

[cmarko]

Try directing the email directed to the local machines actual IP address instead of 127.0.0.1 or localhost and see if this resolves. This is a bit contradictory to reading, but I've seen this fix this problem many times. Make sure you have the SMTP service actually running on Port 25 also, and that it passes all verification tests.

[jerdo]

My bet is you don't have an email server running on your machine. You will need to set your php.ini file to point at an actual smtp server to send mail.