email form not working

[maxelcat]

Dear All

First post here-looks like a great site

Anyway, I have a form that i have successfully used on 3 sites. On site number 4 it doesn't want to work.

Here is the basic code -

//create the message:
		$message = 'email message from '.$first_name.' '.$last_name."\n";
		$message .='contact phone (if left) '.$phone."\n";
		$message .='email address = '.$email_one."\n\n\n";
		$message .='Enquiry = '.$comment;"\n";
		$to = "[e-mail]";
		$subject = "Enquiry from lea Valley High School Website";
		$headers = "From: ".$email_one;

- which is a bit newbie, but then I am!

Anyway, the host tells me that I need to add a relay and gave me an line to add.

I have put it thus:

//set the ini file to deal with SMTP
		[COLOR="Red"]ini_set("SMTP","inbound1.equinoxit.net");[/COLOR]

	//create the message:
	$message = 'email message from '.$first_name.' '.$last_name."\n";
	$message .='contact phone (if left) '.$phone."\n";
	$message .='email address = .....

I now get the following error message.
PHP Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 Relaying not permitted (3.7):

What should I do? Is it a problem with the server - they tell me to set up a relay and then their server says "Sorry, no relays here" or is it that I have set it up wrong?

Any helkp would be greately appreciated

thanks in advance
Edward

[Jourdain]

A quick google search throws this up: http://drupal.org/node/30079

Looks like its a problem with the SMTP server not currently allowing mail from localhost (or your server). Point the system admin to that, and see if that helps you out.

[bradgrafelman]

I doubt it's coming from localhost, because it appears that you're using an external SMTP server, though I could be wrong.

Either way, if the SMTP server requires authentication, you won't be able to use PHP's native mail() function and will have to search for other classes (XPerMailer, PHPMailer, etc.) that can implement this feature.