Smtp

[marcusth]

hey,

i'm facing sor of the same problem as InNeedOfHelp, i'm doing a web project using my laptop at home. I need to test it which include sending of mail to user. However, i want to use a remote smtp server to deal with forwarding my mail to hotmail or yahoo.

i change my php.ini into:


[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.net (smtp server i wan to make use of)
smtp_port = 25


; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = mymail@hotmail.com

what else did i lack of, assuming my coding to send a simple mail is error-free??

tnx alot in advance

[Twey]

what else did i lack of, assuming my coding to send a simple mail is error-free??

You forgot to uncomment the sendmail_from line.

[thetestingsite]

You might be able to find and install a Windows SMTP server, but I've never seen one.

hMailServer is a free, fully functional mail server for Windows. Pretty simple to install and use.

Hope this helps.

[marcusth]

oya, wad a silly mistakes i shall go try later.

hey testingsite, but i don wan to install any mail server in my laptop, i wanna use the smtp server which eventually i have to make use of in future.

So other den the php.ini file, is there any xtra codings needed??

[marcusth]

I'm having a rather same scenerio here for weeks without getting a feasible solution, can any1 help me with this?? As i'm totally new to PHP, i tried many methods found online but got stuck at some stage e.g changing php.ini, using swiftmailer etc. So can any1 guide me along, assuming i jux installed my php and did nth to it...really apreciate it

You see, i'm currently working on a web application which involve sending emails to user. I'm using windowXP SP2, with apache installed incorporate with MySQL as my server. Rite now my code for sending the mail is :


<?php
require_once "Mail.php";

$from = "Sandra Sender <sender@example.com>";
$to = "Ramona Recipient <recipient@example.com>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$host = "smtp.yahoo.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>


As you can see, i'm trying to use yahoo as my external smtp mail server to help send my mail to my application end user.


Any guidance plss??? tnx alot