Email function not working

[glenmac]

I can't get my email function working. I have checked the php.ini file and according to what I've read it's correct.
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost ; for Win32 only

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = glenmac@lantzvillecomputers.com ; for Win32 only


I'm running IIS5 on win 2k server and have SMTP mail installed. Can anyone shead some light on what I'm doing wrong? I was thinking of changing localhost to my email server address would that work?

 

[BB101]

Code or error message? --BB

 

[sleipnir214]

Is the machine which is running PHP also running a mail server? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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[glenmac]

sleipnir214 the only mail service I'm running is the default smtp service that comes with IIS.
BB no error message but no email either.

 

[sleipnir214]

Does your invocation of the mail() function return TRUE?

Can you telnet to port 25 on localhost and inject an email by hand? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

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[glenmac]

Tried telneting and connection can't be established

 

[sleipnir214]

Make sure that you are on the IIS box itself when you try to do it.

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[glenmac]

I am can't even telenet to localhost at all yet the server is running fine.

 

[sleipnir214]

Are you telnetting specifically to port 25? Considering that the default telnet port is 23? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

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[BB101]

the default IIS SMTP service doesn't actually send emails, i think its just a carrier for them.

You will need a mail server in order to send emails. --BB

 

[glenmac]

Sleipnir214 yes I've tried port 25 no go. I give up I've added my ISPs server to my php.ini file and it works.
SMTP = my_isps_smtp_server. Thanks for all the replies. I think you're right BB101. But it seems strange that the default for php.ini smtp server is "localhost" on windows, and I've not found any documentation on how to impliment it.
I think maybe the mail service in IIS 5 will work on a lan.

 

[sleipnir214]

glenmac:

It's probably a side-effect of the fact that PHP is platform agnostic. The authors use "localhost" because it is the only resolvable machine name which is guaranteed to exist. If you have an IP stack, you've got "localhost". Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

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[glenmac]

Thanks for your help sleipnir214.