PHP mail() fucntion

[vj_rishi007]

Hello,

On my server PHP standard mail() function is not running this function not sending mail to anybody but it does not give any error message on the browser.

Can u please help why this happening plus ca u please give the code of sending php mail through smtp.

thanks
Vijay

[shastry]

Try with this by changing the folowing contents of php.ini file to suit ur environment
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost //ur mail server

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = yourid@yourdomain
ex:
compose.php
<--Start of compose.php -->
<FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="POST">

To:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="to"><br>
Subject:<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="subject"><BR>
<CENTER>Enter Mail Message Here</CENTER><BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME="body" rows=10 cols=50></TEXTAREA><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Send" value="Send">
</FORM>
<--End of compose.php -->
<--Start of test.php -->
<?php
mail($to,$subject,$body);
?>

<center>Message Sent!
<A HREF="compose.php">wann compose another</A></center>

<--End of test.php -->
--Shastry

[Anon]

Ich habe ähnliches Problem.
Auf dem Server läuft NT, IIs, PHP 4...
Wie konfiguriere bzw. installiere ich den Mailserver?
Obige Angaben sind eingestellt, funktionieren aber nicht:
"Unknown error in ..." kommt bei mail() immer.

weiß jemand bescheid? Es ist recht wichtig!

Güße

Fabian 🙂

[Anon]

check ur php.ini and make sure u have some valid smtp address there something from ur ISP...
and also u can type in ur outgoing email signature.

[Anon]

I had the same problem, then discovered the following:

1. php.ini was missing from WINNT directory. I had tried putting it in \WINNT\SYSTEM32 where it is not detected.

2. You will not receive any error message if you used the php.ini-recommended ini file, as it has display_errors = Off. Change to On if you want to see the error messages during test.

3. Set the following to your ISP smtp server and email address:
   [mail function]
   ; For Win32 only.
   SMTP = smtp.surewest.net

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

4. After making any change to php.ini, stop and restart the APACHE (or other) server.

[Anon]

One more item with regards to use with windows.

While trying to use formmail.php shareware I would also receive the failure message. I discovered that if I substitute backslash r in place of backslash n (and made sure there were no backslash n in the valves it pasts to mail() then it would work on windows.

It also somewhat worked on my UNIX ISP, except that the message headers were not totally visible using Outlook and the message was "sent on behalf of" instead of lust listing the user email address.

This is unfortunate that there is this difference between windows and unix -- not sure how to work around it without lots of extra programming.

Statements from formmail (where there is a \r there was a \r\n):

// mail the content we figure out in the following steps
function mail_it($content, $subject, $email, $recipient) {

    mail($recipient, $subject, $content, "From: $email\rReply-To: $email\rX-Mailer: DT_formmail");

}

[Anon]

I have some problem too, i set the php ini in my w2kpro, IIS web server with :

SMTP = 131.107.210.8 ( my mail server with maildaemon )

sendmail_from = ( i blank it )

so when i run mail() in my client pc , error the message is 'failed to connect'.
Why???

Regards

Iwan Djojo

[Anon]

I have the same problem. I am still not sure about the SMTP and sendmail_from:

1.My internet server is pacbell.net. So is it the right to write as: SMTP=smtp.pacbell.net
2.My server is hosting in my own PC. Do I need to create an email account for myself? How to create it?

Thanks everyone advance for giving me some ideas

Jianpeng Xin