Web Form Mail

johnedo

I'm running the folowing on Windows XP Professional platform:

Apache 2.0.45
MySQL 4.0.12
PHP 4.3.2-RC1 + PEAR
Perl 5.8.0
mod_php 4.3.1
mod_ssl 2.0.44
openssl 0.9.7a

When I try to generate and send an email using a web form a few different scripts i've found on the web, I get the same error message:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini

My SMTP is set to Localhost. There is no "smtp_port" setting in the php.ini file. I tried adding that in below the SMTP setting but received the same error message.

I've also configured my router to open port 25 on the machine running Apache.

Does anyone know of a resolution to this issue?

Stumped

Johnedo

hessian

What are you running to do SMTP Relaying?

Can you telnet to localhost on port 25?

Do you have another mail server you can switch it to?

johnedo

Thanks for the reply Hessian.

Originally posted by hessian
What are you running to do SMTP Relaying?

If i need to install or run any components other than the ones listed I am not aware of it.

Can you telnet to localhost on port 25?

typing 'telnet localhost 25' in the command prompt gets me a blank screen but as soon as I try to type anything in it or change focus to another windo it kills the connection and reverts to the cmd.exe command prompt

Do you have another mail server you can switch it to?

My wampp2 bundle came with Mercury Mail server however i have not been able to get it working due to poor documentation so the answer is no. Do I need to have a mail server running in order to send and email to a recipient through a web form?

johnedo

Update: the answer about telnet is NO I can't telnet on port 25

LordShryku

You need to be running a mail server or point the SMTP directive in your php.ini to a running mail server.

johnedo

Originally posted by LordShryku
You need to be running a mail server or point the SMTP directive in your php.ini to a running mail server.

Is it possible to piggy-back off outlook express? If not, can you recommend a mail server compatible with Windows XP Professional that is easy to install and configure (freeware is best, inexpensive at the most).

Thank you.
Johnedo

LordShryku

Outlook Express has to be configured to point to an SMTP server as well. If you can send email from Outlook Express, look in the settings for the SMTP server and use that. As far as servers to setup on Windows, I'm not sure. I use sendmail on Linux, though I don't think any of them are going to be incredibly easy to setup.