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[Yellow_Dart]

Hi, I installed php+apache+myql+etc... on my computer using the XAMPP package...

Everything is good, except i cant send mail. My computer is running XP home.

Whenever i try to send it gives me this error:

Warning: 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 C:\xampp\htdocs\Server\mailing_list\confirmjoin.php on line 34

Anyways, i was thinking that maybe i could send it through my isp's smtp server. it's smtp.uci.net. How do i configure php to do this? Thanks

[________]

Open the php.ini file and scroll down to mailfunctions and edit it. Eg.:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.yourhost.com

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

[Drakla]

Chicken McNuggets! I've been through this whole same fiasco today.

You can either go to the php.ini and change the value of SMTP to your isp's smtp thing, or do it in the script likesy:

ini_set("SMTP","smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk");

If your server needs authorisation I've heard ( a rumour ) that you can't do this with PHP as from version 4-point-something. For that you have to do it yourself with fsockopen and send

"auth login\r\n"
"username" (but base64 encoded)
"password" (also base64 encoded)

I'd like to know if you can do the authenticated this with mail() though, just in case I've been fed a trail of mukky breadcrumbs. Or told point blank it's right out of it, clearly.

[Yellow_Dart]

Thanks it works🙂