mail($to, $subject, $foo, $from) won't work on IIS server

[guarriman]

Hi.

Working on Windows Server 2003' + 'IIS 6.0' + 'PHP 4.3.11', I've got a script
with this line of code:

mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $mail_from); 

And it won't work. How can I hack it to make it available?

Thank you very much.

[AIS4U]

guarriman:

Well, to start with, posting one line of code doesn't really give anyone who may try and help you much information since the problem could be in code before or after this one line.

However, the most common reason why the email ( ) function doesn't work is because you have not set up PHP to point to your mail sending program.

I would start by check that. It will most likely fix your problem.

Good Luck

[mmilano]

to add to what aisu is saying, you need to find the line in your php.ini file to setup your smtp server. just search the file for smtp and you will find an example line.

after you set it, then you need to restart iis and you should be good to go.

[Houdini]

Is there a great article or tutorial lately about email()? Just after your post there was another like this one. You will have to set the php.ini which might be in you c:\Windows\system or system 32 folder on your machine if I remember correctly. The lines you need to edit are shown below;

; For Win32 only. 
SMTP = mail.somehost.com //whatever your email host is for SMTP 
smtp_port = 25 

; For Win32 only. 
sendmail_from = [e-mail] //whatever your email is and remove the semicolon. 

Most likely your php.ini has the default setting of localhost and the senmail_from = is a nonsense example with a semicolon. Change the SMTP = to SMTP = (whatever your outgoing mailserver is as in your e-mail client such as Outlook or Outlook Express). Then remove the semicolon from in front of sendmail_from = and enter your own e-mail address. Restart your computer after you have made changes to restart the server so it can see the new changes. Then do a phpinfo() and in the second table of phpinfo you should see under SMTP= and sendmail_from the new changes then give it a test and you should be good to go.

[Houdini]

Is there a great article or tutorial lately about email()? Just after your post there was another like this one. You will have to set the php.ini which might be in you c:\Windows\system or system 32 folder on your machine if I remember correctly. The lines you need to edit are shown below;

; For Win32 only. 
SMTP = mail.somehost.com //whatever your email host is for SMTP 
smtp_port = 25 

; For Win32 only. 
sendmail_from = [e-mail] //whatever your email is and remove the semicolon. 

Most likely your php.ini has the default setting of localhost and the senmail_from = is a nonsense example with a semicolon. Change the SMTP = to SMTP = (whatever your outgoing mailserver is as in your e-mail client such as Outlook or Outlook Express). Then remove the semicolon from in front of sendmail_from = and enter your own e-mail address. Restart your computer after you have made changes to restart the server so it can see the new changes. Then do a phpinfo() and in the second table of phpinfo you should see under SMTP= and sendmail_from the new changes then give it a test and you should be good to go.