php mail

[roshanjameer]

hi

when i execute a mail program iam getting some error as follows

Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in c:\appserv\www\mails.php on line 20

what is the solution to this problem

code

<?php
// Target email address.
$to="webmaster@localhost";

// Your subject.
$subject="Test Email";

// Sender. You may put the sender's email address after "from:". This example file use "[e-mail]"
$mail_from="from: [e-mail] \n";
// Set this email to HTML email format.
$mail_from .="Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 \n";

// Your message.
$message="Hello, This is your test email.<br>
Your email server is working now!
";

// Send email.
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$mail_from);

// If your email succesfully sent.
if($sentmail){
echo "Email has been sent.";
}
else {
echo "Cannot send email.";
}
?>

thanks
mrjameer

[jpratt]

your mail server is not set up or not set up correctly. Try setting up you mail server again or using a hosting service that has email set up.

[AdRock]

Have you checked your php.ini file to make sure?

Look for [mail function]

[angeljyt]

On the windows platform,if you use want to send a mail with php.You need a MTA(mail transport agent)

[Euradio]

You have to activate mail function in your php.ini.

You don't have to use a MTA(mail transport agent) that's total bull..

Just fix your php.ini file like this:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mysmtpserver.com
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

---

On line SMTP = INSERT SMTP SERVER
check what port it's using normaly 25

and the write your email adress after sendmail_from =

and it will work like a sharm..

[MarkR]

You do need to run a local MTA, if this is a production server, otherwise you will lose mail every time your provider's mail server goes down.

You cannot rely on a third party server being constantly up; PHP's mail function will NOT queue messages or retry if the server is down.

Mark

[chyan]

Euradio wrote:

You have to activate mail function in your php.ini.

You don't have to use a MTA(mail transport agent) that's total bull..

Just fix your php.ini file like this:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mysmtpserver.com
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

---

On line SMTP = INSERT SMTP SERVER
check what port it's using normaly 25

and the write your email adress after sendmail_from =

and it will work like a sharm..

how it work if you wrote application where user can insert their email in form and your system will automatically send them an email