Not able to send mail from php

[Anon]

I am trying to use mail command of php to transmit mail. I have stored the e-mail addresses in MySQL database and tried to access them within the loop. But this mail function is not working. How can I send multiple mail using the database? Can I anybody help me?

[Anon]

Well, my guess is your have a typo at line 45 of your code.

How about showing us a snippet of your code so we can see what you are doing wrong?

Have you tried sending an email with just the mail command>
Can you send mail from that machine at all? using a normal mail program?

[Anon]

Well, Initialy I tried to send the mail from my local machine using mail command but unable to do so.

Than I tried to execute the mail command from the server. From there I havent received any error message but still I havent received the mail despatched by the mail command.

What is the process? How should I approach?

I will be glad to know the detail.

Thanks in Advance.

Javed.

[Anon]

When you say
"Initialy I tried to send the mail from my local machine using mail command but unable to do so"
does that mean you logged onto your local machine and typed "mail" or "elm" or "mutt" or some other mail program, or did you try to use the mail() function in PHP?

My point being that I have seen a few people get very frustrated at why php-mail didn't work, only to find out later that the machine they were working on couldn't send any mail whatsoever.

[Anon]

Well, I am able to send mail using other programs like Outlook Express etc.

I am trying to use mail() function of php to send the mail :

mail($to,$subject,$message);

It gives me the error message :
" Failed to Connect in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\mail1.php on line 2."

My ini setting of php.ini is this :

[mail function]
SMTP=localhost ;for win32 only
sendmail_from=[e-mail] ;for win32 only
;sendmail_path= ;for unix only, may supply arguments as well (default is 'sendmail -t -i')

Please help me out and let me know what is wrong.
Thanks in advance.