Help with Email

AHoward007

I am having trouble getting php script to send email. The msg I get is as follows:

An error occurred in script 'C:\wamp\www\register.php' on line 70: 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()

My php.ini file is as follows:

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

I seem to be getting a telnet connection from the windows cmd prompt when I test port 25 that way.

devinemke

obvious question: are you running an SMTP app? if you want to send mail then you are going to need one.

NogDog

If that is not practical, you can look into PHPMailer, which comes with its own SMTP class.

AHoward007

Thanks for the replies.

I wasn't able to get the email function to send mail from my PC. However, when I transferred the file to my web host it worked fine.

I downloaded phpmailer and tried some tests with no success.

I went to my cable provider website Broadstripe.com, it said that web servers and mail servers will not work on my cable service.

I'm assuming the reason I can't connect is because of this. If anyone knows for sure please let me know. I would like to be able to test php mail functions thru my PC before uploading to my webhost in the future.