I set up DokuWiki on a Windows 2012 Server using wampserver
It works really well, but I can't get it to see any smtp server. I set up a local server using IIS, tested it using blat. I added the following lines to the php.ini:
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from address#host.com
I also tried using the computer's domain as the server, but Doku won't send any email. Looking at Doku's wiki, I found these helpful instructions: dokuwiki email, but I always get an error that says "Looks like there was an error on sending the password mail. Please contact the admin!"
I also tried the 'fake sendmail', but it gave me the same result.
I reset Apache and IIS after changing the configs, but there was no change. There is nothing in the log files either.
As far as I can tell, this should work. Is there another config file or something else that I missed?
Thanks,
Well, just pointing PHP to localhost for a mail server won't work unless you run a mailserver there.
You have three options:
configure your php.ini to point to a mail server on your LAN
run a local Mailserver (eg. http://www.pendriveapps.com/portable-smtp-server-mini-relay/)
use the swiftmail plugin (https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:swiftmail) to configure DokuWiki to use some other external mailserver (eg. gMail).
Related
Okay, so I'm new to php, and so I searched this site to find out how to send an e-mail to myself after a user fills out a contact form. I found this answer.
Send email with PHP from html form on submit with the same script
I'm using the code from the selected answer. I tried the top answer, by combining both sections into a single php page, and the second, using an html and php page, but I get the following errors:
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 (MY WEBSITE) on line 14
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 (MY WEBSITE) on line 15
"MY WEBSITE" was put there by me.
Lines 14 and 15 are these:
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2);
Why am I getting this issue? I'm doing exactly what the poster said to do.
You are running PHP on Windows. On Unix-like systems, PHP is able to use the built-in sendmail command to send emails, and so needs no further configuration. On Windows, however, that command doesn't exist, so PHP sends email via an external SMTP server.
In order to send emails, as the error messages explain, you will need to configure your php.ini file or use ini_set() to set the SMTP and smtp_port ini settings. You'll want to specify a SMTP server and smtp_port (usually 25) that you can send email from. If you are running php from your home computer, this would probably be whatever mail server your ISP gave you. If you are are on a third-party hosting provider, you would have to get email server information from them (and they may not actually allow sending email, or may put tight controls on how much you can send, to prevent spam).
The location of the ini file is set by both configuration and convention. PHP's configuration file documentation. On Windows, a long list of registry keys is checked, before eventually falling back to C:\windows or C:\winnt, so that is where you should look for your ini file. (Running php --ini will also show where it's actually trying to read the ini file from.)
There is a sample configuration file shown in the configuration file documentation. If you don't already have a php.ini that was installed when you installed PHP, you can use that format to guide you in creating a new file.
I would bet you are on a Linux server or the host server has the mail function built in turned off. You are not with out options though.
First consider your server. If your server is a shared server and you are likely to have your mail sent to spam if it is delivered at all. Most websites will out source their message systems to keep the load off the server and to ensure delivery.
If you are not in the market for outsourcing your mail services you will need to use a library that will do most of the heavy lifting for you. I would recommend phpMailer it even has an autoset up build in with great examples on how to configure your server.
Next before you install php mailer read your host servers fine print most of them have strict rules about mail (meaning you have to keep a confirmation they wanted the email) if they let you send mail at all. They do this to keep their servers off of spam list.
Good Luck
Getting error message
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
Ive opened up php.ini and i believe i need to add
SMTP "localhost" PHP_INI_ALL
smtp_port "25" PHP_INI_ALL
sendmail_from NULL PHP_INI_ALL
sendmail_path NULL PHP_INI_SYSTEM
Im not sure where to add it though? Also correct me if anything i believe i need to do is incorrect. Im currently developing website on localhost so if anything i need to please tell me.
EDIT**
My local host is XAMPP amd i believe this has a mail server
You're probably not running an SMTP server on your localhost.
If you only need an SMTP server for development purposes, and you're running Windows, install smtp4dev, which can be found here: http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
It's a beautiful little piece of software that sits in your task bar and lets you see all email that is being sent to it. It doesn't actually send email anywhere, so you can work with live data without fear of spamming someone.
Then, when you want your application to actually send email (when you run it on the server), you will need an SMTP server address instead of "localhost". If you don't know which SMTP to use, speak to your network administrator or ISP.
Last but not least, if you access your email through an email program, you can probably find the "Outgoing server" in your settings somewhere, although that depends on which mail program you use. An "SMTP server" and an "Outgoing server" are exactly the same thing.
You can't send mail from your local computer if you don't have a mail server running on it. Just like everyone else has said: Make sure you have a mail server that is properly configured and up and running on your local computer, or install it on a remote computer and change the IP address/port to point to the remote computer.
You can add smtp configuration at any place, but it is a good idea to search for [mail function] section in that file and add that below. Also,
SMTP = *smtp server addr here*
smtp_port = 25
If you are not using XAMPP or some other packet of that kind, it's unlikely that you have smtp server up and running on localhost.
you have to install a Mail Server Program to your comp.. Localhost does not support send mail in default way
I am a newbie in Web Development an I am currently learning PHP and MySQL. I have read HeadFirst PHP and MySQL, and tried the examples. But The PHP Mail() function doesn't work on my Local Machine. I have tried the script on a web server but nothing happens, the mail isn't sent. Please Help me. I have configured the PHP.INI file to send emails but still the problem persists.
<?php
$to = "me#me.com";
$sub = "hello";
$msg = "Hello, how are you?";
//Mail Function
mail($to,$sub,$msg);
?>
I am using WebMatrix with PHP 5.2 installed. Please help me, I am trying out this one since last 2 hours! I am stuck!
mail() uses 'localhost' to send - it generally assumes it's on Linux.
You will need to aquire a basic SMTP server and run it on windows, OR you may be able to use the SMTP server of your're ISP.
Whichever option, you will need to edit your php.ini, you will find:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
;SMTP =
you must set SMTP to the ip/port of a mailserver - again wither run one locally or use your ISP.
EDIT
You could try this approach - I have personally never tried to use GMail for sending: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/php-pear-mail-packege-support-security-through-ssl-586976/
But The PHP Mail() function doesn't work
Yes it does. The problem is either with how you configured PHP or with the MTA you configured it to use. You'd need to provide details of both for us to understand why mail is not getting sent.
The above answer also is applicable to those who use a simulated local IIS e.g. the WebMatrix on IIS Express users who reside within a corporate network with a SMTP machine available.
To be able to send emails out from within it one needs to edit the PHP.INI file (found typically in \Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\PHP\v5.3) and replace 'localhost' with the SMTP server IP or DNS name.
I am trying to send out password reset links for when users forget their password to login to a system I am creating. The problem is, the smtp server is supposedly not configured on the server my system is hosted on. So whenever I try to use the php mail() function to send an email to an internal email address, the emails fail to send, but outside email address (tested with a gmail account), the emails go through. I believe this is because my server is sending directly out to the internet instead of passing through an internal smtp server to resolve where our domain emails should be sent. I was wondering if anyone knew how to configure this on an Xserve or if they knew how to specifically tell the php mail() function where to initially send the email. Any help or pointing in the right direction would be extremely helpful.
Thank you!
mail() doesn't send mail, it just hands things over to the local SMTP server. It does NOT reach out to the recipient's server to deliver the mail. In real world terms, mail() walks your letter down the street and drops it into the neighborhood mailbox. After that, it has absolutely nothing more to do with mail delivery.
Check your local SMTP server's logs to see why the local mails aren't being delivered. There should be a line or two saying why it's registered. Perhaps the local MTA (mail-transfer agent, aka the local "mail man") isn't configured properly.
You can control mail() with it's settings.
This might not solve your overall problem, but hopefully it's useful. This related answer has more information.
We just addressed this problem internally here. Hopefully this will help you as well.
Our environment:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
PHP 5.3.10
We could telnet into our SMTP server and send mail from our web server, so it wasn't a permissions issue. When attempting to mail externally, all works perfectly. When attempting to mail internally, silent failure.
Our PHP is using sendmail, which by default, attempts to relay mail to 127.0.0.1. Point this at your SMTP server by editing /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Update the line from:
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS
to
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSyour.smtp.server.com
Restart sendmail and try sending yourself an email via PHP.
This is something that occurs on Parellels’ PLESK server administration software.
Find your ‘main.cf’ configuration file for PostFix, which for CentOS 6, is located at
/etc/postfix/main.cf
If you can’t find it, do a
which postfix
SSH command to at least see where Postfix is on your server.
Then, open the file up through a text editor, or in the Linux shell, and make these lines (should be at the end of the file, around line 677) :
virtual_mailbox_domains = $virtual_mailbox_maps, hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/virtual_domains
virtual_alias_maps = $virtual_maps, hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/virtual
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/vmailbox
commented out like this :
#virtual_mailbox_domains = $virtual_mailbox_maps, hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/virtual_domains
#virtual_alias_maps = $virtual_maps, hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/virtual
#virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/var/spool/postfix/plesk/vmailbox
Then, restart the Postfix service
sudo service postfix restart
Apache while your at it (can’t hurt), and voila! Your email address should be receiving those emails now. This also doesn’t affect any of your regular emails or anything else, either.
I'm running XAMPP on my local machine and on a server in the office. Both are Windows machines.
I'm writing some code that uses mail() to send email from a form. By default, it uses sendmail.exe (which comes with XAMPP) to send the email. In all cases, the mail is actually sent via a third machine, which is the Exchange server.
From my local machine, PHP can send mail just fine. On the server, upon form submission I get this error:
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
... followed by my filename.
I don't understand why it's referencing "localhost." Nowhere in php.ini or sendmail.ini does is "localhost" used - I use the name of the mail server. The SMTP information used on both machines is the same.
As far as I can tell, the two environments have everything important in common:
The php.ini files are identical
The sendmail.ini files are identical
Both machines have the same version of XAMPP installed
The same batch script will run on both machines and successfully send email via sendmail.exe
I have stopped and started Apache several times to make sure it's using the updated config files.
When I get the error above, I notice that no log file is produced by sendmail.exe, which makes me think it's never run.
What am I missing?
Solved
My problem was that I thought it was using c:\xampp\php\php.ini, but it was actually using c:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini. This should have been obvious, and I had previously edited the correct file on my local machine, but somehow I got confused when making the changes on the server.
Using php_info() showed me which config file was loaded, and I edited the correct one. It's working now! Thanks everyone for your help.
You should add a call to phpinfo() in your page, and check that:
Your PHP script is using the correct php.ini
Check that the SMTP ini settings (as displayed in the phpinfo tables) are correct.
Try to use this in the code on server:
ini_set("SMTP","smtp.example.com" );
ini_set('sendmail_from', 'user#example.com');
I had to do this also - you need to sent up the sendmail.ini:
Your sendmail.ini should be located in C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini.
You only need to be concern with 3 variables here:
1.smtp_server
2.auth_username
3.auth_password
Details are here: Send mail and xampp
Bill H