cannot receive email ?. How to change SMPT settings ?

[maith]

Hi, I have a simple PHP programme
<?php
$to='mymail@hotmail.com';
$email='myoutlookemail@iol.ie';
$mailHeader = "From: {$email}\r\n";
$mailHeader .= "Reply-To: {$email}\r\n";
$mailHeader .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
$subject='the subject';
$message='hello';
mail($to,$subject,$message,$mailHeader);
?>

I do not receive any email or any notification of failure. I have WindowsXP PHP 5.16. I have Outlook. When I open my php.ini file (I have a number of them !) I cannot find any SMPT to modify ? Should I change the SMPT settings in Outlook ?

Thanks,
Paul

[spikeZ]

Hi Paul and welcome to the forums

One thing you can do is run a conditional statement to see if the mail is actualy sent or not:

<?php
$to='mymail@hotmail.com';
$email='myoutlookemail@iol.ie';
$mailHeader = "From: {$email}\r\n";
$mailHeader .= "Reply-To: {$email}\r\n";
$mailHeader .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
$subject='the subject';
$message='hello';
if(!mail($to,$subject,$message,$mailHeader)) {
    echo 'Error sending Mail';
} else {
    echo 'Mail Sent';
}
?>

Are you sending from a server host or your own Localhost?

Spike

[kleineme]

I cannot find any SMPT to modify ?

it's SMTP, maybe that's the reason?

[maith]

Thanks for your reply. I was lol, as I got smtp mixed up in the php.ini file.
I have my php file on a host server which is what I want. When I run the PHP on the server, it says, "Mail Sent", but I did not receive the email ?

Also I have tested the php file from my local computer. I have modified the sendmail_from in the php.ini file to 'myoutlookemail@iol'.
The SMTP = localhost and smtp_port = 25.
I am using Xaamp and Apache. The error I get when I load the php file in my browser is:
This is the email test php file
Warning: mail() [function.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\xampp\htdocs\xampp\examples\testemail2.php on line 16

Warning: mail() [function.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\xampp\htdocs\xampp\examples\testemail2.php on line 17
Error sending Mail.

Also does the $email variable, in your code, have any purpose ?
$email='myoutlookemail@iol.ie';

Thanks,
Paul

[Kailash Badu]

It's not working on your local system because you don't have a SMTP server running on the port 25 of your machine (most likely, it's not there at all).

As for not getting the mail that you sent from the live server: did you check your junk folder (may be it was taken off as a spam) ?.

[maith]

Thanks for that. I got it working. I can receive mail to Gmail and to Outlook but not to hotmail ? It wasn't in the Junk box either, using the host server.

I have found that you must use carriage returns in order to send to hotmail.

Thanks,
Paul