mail function, what do i need?

oops73

Hi,

can anyone tell me how to config PHP for sending mail.

/Joel

rebelo

You need to have an smtp server such as sendmail or postfix. There could be other ways of doing it (like having php send through an external smtp server), but I don't know for sure. Pretty much every linux server in the world has sendmail on it so the mail() function generally just works.

oops73

Originally posted by rebelo
You need to have an smtp server such as sendmail or postfix. There could be other ways of doing it (like having php send through an external smtp server), but I don't know for sure. Pretty much every linux server in the world has sendmail on it so the mail() function generally just works.

Ok, but i have win XP and it's just for a test server for the moment.

Is there a extention for Apache or PHP to send mail?

rebelo

The mail section of the PHP Manual seems to suggest that you can set your SMTP server manually in php.ini. This should get you going:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

oops73

I have this code and get this error message:

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for

What is wrong here??

///// EMAIL /////
					/* recipients */
					$to = $Email;
					/* subject */
					$subject = "TEST from server";
					/* message */
					$message = 'hi there
					<html>
					<head>
					<title>TEST from Server</title>
					</head>
					<body>
					<p>TEST for '.$Fname.' '.$Lname.'</p>
					</body>
					</html>
					';
					/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
					$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
					$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
					/* additional headers */
					$headers .= "From: Server<info@testserver.fr>\r\n";
					/* and now mail it */
					mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

rebelo

Looks like your PHP code is fine but the SMTP server you are trying to relay through is not allowing you to do so. Perhaps that server requires stmp authentication for sending?