how to configure php for sending email

[vasana]

Hi. I'm new in PHP. I wanna send email from my computer. I use windows xp. Can anyone tell me how to configure the php.ini for sending email? How can I find my isp's SMTP mail server? Do I need to download any tool or install any mail server on my machine?
Thank you so much for your help.

[stolzyboy]

if you don't have a smtp server on the machine you want to send mail from, you can either install one, or use an external smtp server, just look in your php.ini for the following

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

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

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

[vasana]

what should I put in sendmail_from , my own email address or [e-mail]? Actually, I tried both but still got this error

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [e-mail] in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\sendMail on line 3

[stolzyboy]

do you have an smtp server installed on your machine, and yes you change that email addy to reflect your own

[vasana]

um... I'm not sure. May be not. How can I install it?

[stolzyboy]

if you are on nix, you can install sendmail, but that probably would be on there, if you are on win, you can download an smtp program called mailtraq (i think) and use that