Please install a mailserver until your SMTP server
will be up.
When your SMTP server is down,mail func doesn't work.
My suggesstion:
Please work under UNIX systems.
Yours,Mohsen
--- Dre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I was trying to use the mail() function, but it did
> not work, maybe because
> of some settings problem or something that I can't
> figure out
>
> I went online and tried to execute the following
>
//=======================================================
> <?php
> $from = $_POST['from'];
> $subject = $_POST['subject'];
> $content = $_POST['content'];
> $to = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
> $headers = "From:".$from;
> if(mail($to, $subject, $content, "From:
> $from")) {
> echo"sent";
> }
> else{ echo "not sent";
> }
> ?>
> //===============================================
> the variable values sent from a Form in another and
> they are sent correctly
>
> but I keep having this error
> //===============================================
> Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at
> "localhost" port 25,
> verify your "SMTP"
> and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()
> in
> C:\Program Files\Apache
> Group\Apache2\htdocs\mysite/myfile.php on line 194
> //===============================================
>
>
> my php.ini settings for the mail function are
>
> //=============================
> [mail function]
> ; For Win32 only.
> SMTP = localhost
>
> smtp_port = 25
> sendmail_from = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> //=============================
>
> thanks in advance
> Dre,
>
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