mail() "Failed to connect to server..."

zearin_galaurum

I have checked and double checked my settings and everything here, and scoured forums for HOURS. I have posted here before. Then I Googled for MORE HOURS. I cannot for the life of me find out what is wrong.

I would really appreciate some help. 🙂

Web Server: Win2000 IIS 5
Mail Server: UNIX (Postfix)
Problem: trying to send a form via the mail() function. I get the following error message:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "mail.server.name" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in f:\Inetpub\wwwroot\forms\submittest.php on line 46

My PHP code is:

<?

ini_set("SMTP","addr.umd.edu"); //changes default setting in php.ini
ini_set("sendmail_from","addr@addr.umd.edu");

$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$phone=$_POST['phone'];
$deptroom=$_POST['Dept_RM'];
$completedate=$_POST['completedate'];
# $submitdate=$_POST['submitdate'];
$publications=$_POST['publications'];
# $publication_other=$_POST['publication_other'];
$title=$_POST['title'];
$papersize=$_POST['papersize'];
$total_pages=$_POST['total_pages'];
$num_copies=$_POST['num_copies'];
# $color=$_POST['color'];
# $bright=$_POST['bright'];
# $handout=$_POST['handout'];
# $miscellaneous=$_POST['miscellaneous'];
$cutting=$_POST['cutting'];
$folding=$_POST['folding'];
$copywork_other=$_POST['copywork_other'];
# $distribution=$_POST['distribution'];
$distribution=$_POST['distribution_other'];
# $website=$_POST['website'];
$website_other=$_POST['website_other'];
$other_instr=$_POST['other_instr'];


$to="addr@addr.umd.edu";

$headers="From: [email]addr@addr.umd.edu[/email]\r\n";
$headers.="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers.="Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$headers.="charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$message="$name has just submitted a Marketing Request. They said:\r\n$other_instr\r\n\r\nTheir e-mail address was: $email .\r\n";

echo "<html><head><title>Form Submission</title>\r\n\r\n";
echo "<style type=\"text/css\"><!--\r\n";
echo "body {margin-left:12.5%; margin-right:12.5%}\r\n";
echo "--></style></head><body>\r\n\r\n\r\n";

if (mail($to,"Request",$message,$headers))
{
	echo "<h1>Form Submitted.</h1>\r\n\r\n";
	echo "<p>\r\nThanks for your comments.</p>\r\n\r\n";
	echo "<p style=\"font-weight:bold\">\nThe following info was submitted:</p>\r\n\r\n";
	echo "<p style=\"color:navy; background:#eee; padding:1em; font:normal normal normal small/1.5 Georgia,serif\">\r\n";
	echo "$name <br />\r\n";
	echo "$email <br />\r\n";
	echo "blah blah blah</p>";
} else {
	echo "<h1 style=\"color:red\">Error.</h1>\n\n";
	echo "\r\n<p>\r\nThere was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.</p>";
}

echo "\r\n\r\n\r\n</body></html>";

?>

Yes, the mail server name is correct.

Yes, the SMTP port is 25.
Yes, I am going crazy here!

drew010

im gonna guess here that you have setup this webserver at home and are testing it.

if thats the case read on, if not then im not too sure what the problem is.

it seems lately a lot of isps are blocking connections on port 25 to remote servers.

-open up the command prompt
-type 'telnet' (without ')
-type 'open addr.umd.edu 25'

see if it connects. if not you may be unable to connect to a remote mailserver on port 25. they can resolve it by listening on port 26 also or you can use your isps mail servers which you can find by...
-opening the command prompt
-type 'nslookup'
-type 'set q=mx'
-type your isp domain
-look for the mail exchanger entries.
-pick one of the servers and try it in your script.

sys4dm1n

check your php.ini file, that may be the cause of that.

harmor

I can't help you with your problem but I cleaned up your code.

<? 

ini_set("SMTP","addr.umd.edu"); //changes default setting in php.ini 
ini_set("sendmail_from","addr@addr.umd.edu"); 

extract($_POST);


$deptroom = "$Dept_RM";  
# $submitdate = "$submitdate";
# $publication_other = "$publication_other"; 
# $color = "$color"; 
# $bright = "$bright";
# $handout = "$handout"; 
# $miscellaneous = "$miscellaneous"; 
# $distribution = "$distribution"; 
# $website = "$website"; 

$to="addr@addr.umd.edu"; 

$headers="From: [email]addr@addr.umd.edu[/email]\r\n"; 
$headers.="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers.="Content-type: text/html\r\n"; 
$headers.="charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 

$message="$name has just submitted a Marketing Request. They said:\r\n$other_instr\r\n\r\nTheir e-mail address was: $email .\r\n"; 

echo "<html><head><title>Form Submission</title>\r\n\r\n"; 
      <style type=\"text/css\"><!--\r\n
      body {margin-left:12.5%; margin-right:12.5%}\r\n
      --></style></head><body>\r\n\r\n\r\n";

if (mail($to,"Request",$message,$headers)) 
{ 
echo "<h1>Form Submitted.</h1>\r\n\r\n 
    <p>\r\nThanks for your comments.</p>\r\n\r\n
    <p style=\"font-weight:bold\">\nThe following info was submitted:</p>\r\n\r\n
    <p style=\"color:navy; background:#eee; padding:1em; font:normal normal normal small/1.5 Georgia,serif\">\r\n
    $name <br />\r\n
    $email <br />\r\n
    blah blah blah</p>"; 
} else { 
    echo "<h1 style=\"color:red\">Error.</h1>\n\n
    \r\n<p>\r\nThere was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.</p>"; 
} 

echo "\r\n\r\n\r\n</body></html>"; 

?>