PHP IIS and email...

sroughley

Hey all.

I'm trying, rather unsuccessfully, to get my PHP script to send email via IIS SMTP server. I have the following code in my email class:

// methods
    function send() {
        $this->emailHeader = "From: IIS@localhost";

    if(mail($this->recipient, $this->subject, $this->message, $this->emailHeader)) {
     return TRUE;
    } else {
        $this->error = "[ERROR:] Could not locate SMTP server!<BR>\n";
        return FALSE;
    }
    return TRUE;
}

Now whenever this method is run I get the following error:

##########################################
"Warning: Server Error in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\EmailTest\lib\email.obj on line 72"
##########################################

Where line 72 is the "if(mail..." line.

I assume that the SMTP server is responding to some degree as I get the following entries in the SMTPSVC1 log file:

##########################################
#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2003-04-11 15:06:06
#Fields: date time
2003-04-11 15:06:06
2003-04-11 15:06:06
2003-04-11 15:06:06
##########################################

I'm completely new to using SMTP with PHP, so can anybody give me any suggestions as to the possible causes and solutions to such a problem? There must be come setting I have missed, but I don't know where to begin.

Regards.

Steve.

hi-liter

check the php.ini file, specifically the entries for SMTP and sendmail_from, see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php for more info. not sure that's the entire issue, but worth looking into if not already.

sroughley

Cheers for the reply. It's cool. I had to change 'localhost' in the 'SMTP=localhost' setting in php.ini to my email provider's smtp address.

As I noticed that this has popped up ALOT in the forums and the replies tend to be abit confusing, I'll make sure anyone who needs it can get it right.

In php.ini, find the line 'SMTP = localhost ; for Win32 only'.

Now change 'localhost' to the SMTP address of your email provider. This is the address you specify under SMTP server in Outlook. For example:

SMTP = [email]smtp.hotmail.com[/email] ; for Win32 only

I hope this helps.

Steve.