Mail Function

[adaykin]

Hello, I am trying to use the Mail function to send an email message from a contact form to myself, but I am coming across some errors. My ini file looks like this:

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

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

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path = "C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
mail.force_extra_parameters = sendmail_from

My code in the PHP Script looks like this:

		$from = $email;
		$to = "[e-mail]";
		$subject = "Contact Form Submission on New Horizon Designs";
		$body = "Hello, the email submitted is $email. The services selected are $serivces";
		print "Thank you for submitting the form. I will try and get back to you as soon as I can.";
		mail($to, $subject, $body, $from);

$email is entered earlier in the form and is getting passed correctly. I have tried discluding the $from in the mail function and I get the same error message, here it is:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\eclipsePHP\formSubmit.php on line 52

[devinemke]

you are not using a properly formed "From" header. try this:

$from = 'From: ' . $email; 
$to = '[e-mail]'; 
$subject = 'Contact Form Submission on New Horizon Designs'; 
$body = "Hello, the email submitted is $email. The services selected are $serivces"; 
print 'Thank you for submitting the form. I will try and get back to you as soon as I can.'; 
mail($to, $subject, $body, $from);

[adaykin]

Ok, my next question is what should the SMTP and smtp_port be set to in the ini file, for? Would the information be available on my server, and what should I put for testing on a localhost? Here is the error message I got:

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() in C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\eclipsePHP\formSubmit.php on line 52

[devinemke]

do you have an SMTP app installed on your local machine? if not then you will always get that error regardless of what you have in your php.ini

[adaykin]

yeah there is an SMTP app installed with xampp. I have no idea how to set up the ini file, or what port SMTP is supposed to use I think I'll post something on the apachefriends forum