Warning: Failed to Receive in xxx\xxx\testmail.php on line 3

[gravity]

I have tried for quite some time to get the mail() function working using either my ISP's SMTP server or I also set one up on a windows 2000 box of my own. I have gotten several different error messages. At first i was getting the error message "sendmail_from not set in php.ini. this turned out to be that I had not restarted the web server after making the necessary changes to the PHP.ini file. Now I am getting the error message Warning: Failed to Receive in <the path to my scipt here> on line 3. I am able to send mail from outlook though both of my smtp servers. I have tried to make the script as basic as possible for my test.

<?PHP
mail('[e-mail]','this is the subject','this is the message.');
?>

I have even tried to set the PHP.ini values in the script.

<?PHP

ini_set("sendmail_from","[e-mail]");
ini_set("SMTP","localhost");
mail('[e-mail]','this is the subject','this is the message.');

?>

Here is the INI file.

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

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

I've seen that a few people out there had some initial trouble with this, but they were able to make it work by tweaking the ini file. I have not been so lucky.

Thanks.

[kellog]

I havn't played around with e-mail in php yet, so I don't know if this suggestion has any validity. Plus everything I do is on a unix box.

You could try changing:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

to
SMTP = mail.isp.com

I'm wondering, since windows doesn't have a built-in mail server (or does it?) if your not able to send mail because your trying to route it through a non-existing mail route.

[gravity]

I tried localhost, my Computer name, and my ISP's SMTP server. but i get the same error every time. Windows actually does have a built in SMTP server when you install IIS; That's what I'm using.

Thanks.