need help with mail()!!!!

[yourchild]

I am fairly new to PHP so if anyone is a noob its me. My situation regards to the use of the mail() function. I have been looking around and have not found an answer so hopefully I can find one here.

I am using Windows, developing the site and testing it locally on IIS. The name of my computer is msi.

I am not able to get the mail() function to work and its making me nuts. There are 2 php.ini file, one in C:/Windows and other other is in some php folder. The one in C:/Windows is being used by php so i am configuring that file.

looking at php.ini I am here:

SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from= [e-mail]

What must I change to make this work?

In the function mail($to, $subject, $body, $header), is $header the same thing as the 'sendmail_from'? So if I set a value for $header in the script, then should I comment out sendmail_from? are the 2 associated with each other?

Now if I send this mail out, where is the mail sending from? is it actually sending from the SMTP mail server on IIS?

[sneakyimp]

there's some info here on the mail function

http://php.net/mail

what exactly isn't working? it's not sending mail?

[yourchild]

sneakyimp wrote:

there's some info here on the mail function

http://php.net/mail

what exactly isn't working? it's not sending mail?

I am getting this error message:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()

I have browsed that site you linked me and didn't get much from there.

[sneakyimp]

does your server have an smtp mail server installed on it?

[yourchild]

I don't know? When I open IIS, there is a virtual directory called "Default SMTP Virtual Server" and the icon picture is of envelopes. I suppose this is the default mail server right? It has an IP address as well.

[sneakyimp]

Just because you have an icon doesn't mean it's running. You should probably find out. If there is no SMTP server running on localhost, mail() is never going to work with the settings you have.