mail function error

[cass27]

Hi
I have recently been trying to create a php script for users who have forgotten thier password. It mails them the new password after creating a new one in the database. I am working on a windows platform and the database I am using is on my hosts remote server.
Everything is ok except it seems to throw up an error with the mail function. I dont know a great deal about mail, SMTP and php.ini so the following error thrown me a bit:

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\testsite\bookmark_fns.php on line 190
Your password could not be re-set - please try again later

Can someone decipher this and tell me what i would need to do in php.ini or how i would use ini_set()?😕

thanks for your help

cass27

[dagon]

you need a mailserver. I suspect if you run the script on your host it will be fine as they will have one set up for php scripts.

[cass27]

Thanks dagon, you are absolutely right, works a treat on the remote server

cass27😃