php.ini forms configuration

[cass27]

Hi,

I am just getting into creating forms using php. I want the user to fill in the form on my website and it to be mailed to my own mail account on my computer. Not the web site domain mail account.
I am aware that I need to change part of the php.ini. Can someone tell me how it should be if my e mail is: [e-mail]

I believe this is the part I need to alter: (I am using windows)

[mail function]
; For Win32 only
SMTP = localhost

; For win32 only
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

Thanks for your help

cass27

[NogDog]

The php.ini settings have nothing to do with where emails are sent. It may affect whom the email is sent from depending on how you send the mail and whether or not you specify a specific from address in that method.

[cass27]

ok. I have created an html form that points to a page called sendMail.php but I recieve this error page:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 <Cat-Chat >: sender address must contain a domain in C:\wamp\www\louandel3\testingphp\sendMail.php on line 23

The code for the sendMail page is:

<?php 
echo "<p>Thank you ".$_POST["name"]. " for your message!</p>";
echo "<p>Your E-Mail address is " .$_POST["email"]. "</p><br/>";
echo "<p>Your message was: ".$_POST["message"]. "</p>";
//start building the mail string
$msg = "Name:   ".$_POST["name"]."\r\n";
$msg .= "E-Mail:   ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
$msg .= "Message:   ".$_POST["message"]."\r\n";
//Set up the mail
$recipient = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Form submission results";
$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <[e-mail]> \r\n";
$mailheaders .="Reply-To ".$_POST["email"];
//send mail
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

can anyone see where i maybe going wrong?

Cass27

[NogDog]

Just to keep things simpler for now, try using just the plain email address for the from header for now, and see if that works:

$mailheaders = "From: [e-mail]\r\n";

[cass27]

I think I can see the problem. I have changed it to what you reccommended. The problem has been around whether i do it locally on the testing server or I do it remotely. If I do it remotely it works.
However when i tried to do it locally I got a strange error message about junk mail! Unfortunately I did not save it for you to see as i was a bit panicked. I decided to put the php.ini values back to what they were originally.

So i changed them from:

[mail function]
SMTP = mail.eukhost.com
port = 25

For win32 only
sendmail_mail from = [e-mail]

To

[mail function]
SMTP = localhost
port = 25

For win32 only
sendmail_mail from = [e-mail]

however now when i try it locally (to test it before I upload it I get 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() in C:\wamp\www\louandel3\testingphp\sendMail.php on line 24

So im a little bit confused now why it wont work on the testing server.

thanks

cass27

[cahva]

I dont think WAMP has SMTP server in the package so either you have to install it or just use your ISP's SMTP server for sending mail. For testing purposes you should do fine using your ISP's SMTP(as you did originally, with eukhost?). If you can send mail with your favorite email program using ISP's SMTP, you should be able to send mail with php using the same SMTP settings.

If you want to install SMTP services to your windows machine, I cannot help with that because I never needed one(I use FreeBSD server as my playground 🙂)