php mail() SMTP problem

[vinny199]

Hi,

could you help me with this please:

I get the following error:

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 found out that the server I use does not use localhost as default mail server but "mail.mydomain.com" instead.

I just do not know (and could not find) how to specify the SMTP mail server in my php code as shown below:

 mail( "[e-mail]", "WEB ENQUIRY",
    "

NAME =   $fullname
COMPANY =  $company
PHONE =  $telephone
EMAIL =   $email

SOURCE LANGUAGE =   $sourcelanguage
TARGET LANGUAGE =   $language

NUMBER OF WORDS =   $word

DATE =   $Date

INSTRUCTIONS =   $message


", "From: [e-mail]" );

Can you please advise?

How do I specify the smtp server?

Thanks

Vinny

[YAOMK]

if you can't specify the server in your php.ini, you could use phpmailer which allows you to specify the server from within your script.

[vinny199]

hi thanks,

but maybe i didn't explain myself clearly:

IT IS specified in the php.ini file.

but instead of being "localhost" as default it is specified to "mail.mydomain.com"

so, in the php.ini file, SMTP = mail.mydomain.com

My problem is in my code how to specify this SMTP server because without specifying, it tries to post through localhost which does not exsist.

So, my problem is in here:

mail( "[e-mail]", "WEB ENQUIRY", 
    " 

NAME =   $fullname 
COMPANY =  $company 
PHONE =  $telephone 
EMAIL =   $email 

SOURCE LANGUAGE =   $sourcelanguage 
TARGET LANGUAGE =   $language 

NUMBER OF WORDS =   $word 

DATE =   $Date 

INSTRUCTIONS =   $message 


", "From: [e-mail]" ); 

in how to point to that mail server.

Does that make sense?

thanks,

Vinny