Send Email Via Yahoo Server

[bronzino]

I have this form on localhost on my Mac. The port, username and password info are the same as what I use on my cellphone, and the host info is also the same with the exception of the "ssl://" part. Compliant with Yahoo's specs too.

As you can see, I have this set up to send mail to myself for testing purposes, and I'm not getting any email.

I am not getting any error messages. The form is submitting. Is it because there is something wrong with the code, or is it because it is not possible to do this via localhost for some reason?

<form action="sales_HE.php" method="post">
<?php
$to      = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
    'host: ssl://plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com' . "\r\n" .
	'port: 465' . "\r\n" .
	'auth: true' . "\r\n" .
	'username: me' . "\r\n" .
	'password: mypwd' . "\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<input name="" type="submit" />
</form>

Thanks in advance for any help.

[bradgrafelman]

Few issues:

1. Host, port, auth, username, and password... none of those are valid SMTP headers. (In other words, all of them should be removed.)

2. PHP's internal mail() function can't handle secure connections or SMTP authentication... and you're trying to do both. As such, you're going to have to use a 3rd party class/etc. to send the e-mail (XPertMailer, PHPMailer, Pear::Mail, etc.).

3. Your mail is going to be sent every time this page is loaded (e.g. before you even see the form in your browser). Is this really what you intended to do?

[bronzino]

Thank you for your response.

1. Okay, I guess I misunderstood this response on Yahoo then.

2. I tried using a PEAR script and it is not working - when I load the page, anything under the PEAR script disappears. I am not sure if it is because I don't have PEAR installed or what the story is, never used it and barely know what it means. I have PHP 5.3.2 and I thought the default was that PEAR came with.

3. At this point I am just emailing myself, so whether it's a button or pageload, it makes no difference. 🙂