SMTP server response: 554

Tea_J

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 554 <jan@DOMAIN_NAME.com>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied in e:\domains\v\vathq.co.uk\user\htdocs\new\download_form.php on line 58

first time i've ever encoutered such error when using mail() funtion in php..

did some research. found some threads here on phpbuilder and somewhere else regarding this.. but they all seem to be talking about ini settings, smtp, etc,etc.. complicated stuff....

On one thread someone said this is because the smtp relay server is requiring authentication for sending mails..

ermm.. so how does one set username and password in the php script to resolve this problem? couldnt find it in the manuals..

is it in the mail() funtion?

an example would be great and put me back on track!

Please help..

Tea

jazz_snob

If you need to send auth info to mail server, try the Mail package in PEAR:
http://pear.php.net/search.php?q=mail&in=packages&x=4&y=4

Tea_J

thank you..

but is there no NATIVE way of making smtp logins via plain php?

Weedpacket

Oh, you could probably write a mail server in PHP - just as you could write a web server in PHP. But why?

Tea_J

Oh, you could probably write a mail server in PHP - just as you could write a web server in PHP. But why?

eh? i dont quite follow..

but i get the impression that there is no easy way or PHP simple function for this.. hmm..

Weedpacket

No, I don't follow. What do you mean "NATIVE ... via plain php", then?

Of course if there isn't a simple PHP function then either (a) someone else has already written one somewhere (perhaps in one of the PEAR packages jazz_snob has already pointed you to), or (b) you could write it yourself - this is called "programming".