[RESOLVED] Can't send E-mail from website

[Zolti]

Hi,
I have a website, which is supposed to send confirmation e-mails to registered users. Everything works fine on my computer (used WAMP as development environment), but when I transferred my files to a host, I can’t send mails.
My host says my smtp is: mail.mojpodstanar.com
I set this: ini_set("SMTP","mail.mojpodstanar.com");
Still doesn’t work.

My code is:

$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';

if(mail($to, $subject, $message))
{
echo "Mail sent";
}
else
{
echo "Mail send failure - message not sent";
}

When I run the script, it outputs “Mail sent”, as if it is sent.

Sendmail path is: “ sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t –I ”.

Should I contact the service provider as a last resort?😕

[NogDog]

Have you checked the "spam" folder at the receiving email address?

[Zolti]

Yes, I have checked the spam folder! It's empty!
Maybe the problem is that the SMTP server requires authentication and I simply can't use the Mail function??????

[NogDog]

If you need to send SMTP with authentication, I've had success using the PHPMailer class, which comes with a SMTP class that provides for such. (See examples.)

[bradgrafelman]

Zolti;10975525 wrote:

Maybe the problem is that the SMTP server requires authentication and I simply can't use the Mail function??????

Maybe. But if that were the case, the mail() call should return boolean FALSE and PHP should be displaying/logging an error message stating that this was the problem (assuming you've got the error reporting/logging PHP directives set properly).

[Zolti]

The problem was in the SMTP address, it starts with smtp... not mail..., as my provider stated!🙂

[Zolti]

The SMTP server, indeed, requires authentication and I used a Mail class, not the one that NogDog mentioned but a similar one!
Thank you for your help!