[RESOLVED] smtp win2k3

[oddball]

All,
I am new at PHP. My client has PHP 4.3.10 installed on a Windows 2003 server. Currently it sends mail via smtp to a Linux server which works. When I change the php.ini file to a Windows 2003 the packets seem to get dropped. I did read a thread in the forum that tells a user to use swiftmailer or PHPMailer but I don’t understand why. I believe the current install uses PEAR and that is what the mail() function parses through? I could be way off base here but I am new.( be kind.) There is no resolve on the thread http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10326422&page=1&pp=15&highlight=html+email+windows+2003 so I am not sure what happened. Oh, no email server exists exchange or otherwise on the Windows servers. SMTP is enabled on 192.168.0.8. Thanks in advance. P.S. I did not write the code. Your guidance is appreciated.

Current php.ini smtp settings on server 192.168.0.10.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = 192.168.0.8
smtp_port = 25

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

Here is some of the code on server 192.168.0.10. It opens an order page gets a SO number and sends it and the url to the recipients on Linux not Windows:

<?require_once('classes/order.class.php');?>

<?
if ($POST['submit'] == 'Submit') {
$order = new order();
$order->updateOrder($GET['order']);

$to       = 'Lonnie <[e-mail]>, Woody <[e-mail]>, Kim <[e-mail]>, Vincent <[e-mail]>, Almen <[e-mail]>, Ron <[e-mail]>';
$subject  = $_GET['order'].' has been updated.';
$body     = 'Please review '.$_GET['order'].' at the following link.<br><br>'; 
$body    .= 'URL:  <a href="http://corp.thisisthecompany.com/orders/edit.php?order='.$_GET['order'].'" target="_blank">http://thisisthecompany.com/orders</a>';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Lonnie <[e-mail]>, Kim <[e-mail]>, Vincent <[e-mail]>' . "\n";
$headers .= 'From: Kim <[e-mail]>' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: Kim <[e-mail]>' . "\n";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

}
?>

[oddball]

OK, so, I answered my own question. After hours of looking at swiftmailer and PHPmailer I decided to go back to the code and other websites with code examples and came up with the following which works on Win2k3 server running smtp.

<?require_once('classes/order.class.php');?>

          <?
            if ($_POST['submit'] == 'Submit') {
$order = new order();
$order->updateOrder($_GET['order']);


$to  = '[e-mail], [email][e-mail][/email]' . ', ';
$to .= '[e-mail], [email][e-mail][/email]' . ', ';
$to .= '[e-mail]';

// subject
$subject = $_GET['order'].' has been updated.';

// message
$message     = 'Please review '.$_GET['order'].' at the following link.<br><br>'; 
$message    .= 'URL:  <a href="http://thiscompany.com/orders/edit.php?order='.$_GET['order'].'" target="_blank">http://thiscompany.com/orders</a>';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: lonnie <[e-mail]>, Kim <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Kim <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
//$headers .= 'Cc: [email][e-mail][/email]' . "\r\n";
//$headers .= 'Bcc: [email][e-mail][/email]' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

}
?>
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