task scheduling and PHPMailer class - php

i am using PHPMailer class to send email its work perfect however, my application requirement is such that I have to send email every hour by using task scheduling. Thats mean I have to use PHP.exe CLI. when I tried to execute from CLI my emailsender.php; its says unable to connect SMTP host.

I'm not sure if this will help, but it might.
I had the following problem:
WAMP server. Windows computer.
I run some code and at the end send alert email (all php) using PHPMailer. If I just run the PHP file, it works fine. When I used Task Scheduler, the email doesn't work.
I think this comes from the task scheduler using a different version of PHP on my computer than that of Apache when I load the page on the server.
I got around this by using an absolute file path to the PHPMailer class. It now works fine...
Hope this helps? I'm in no way a pro at this but it worked for me!
Rich

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Hy !! i have a big problem, i have an Ubuntu 10.10 with php 5.3.2, I use phpmailer to send mails and the function works like a month ago. But know, it just said, SendEmail with the php mail, or with the phpmailer say's send!!!
The messages never arrived!! with the 2 functions, i dont know if the php.ini get moves , or somethings else.
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In Gmail, I already check if where at Spam , but they neever arrived.
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When I do this, minutes after they check some information and my mail start to work :)

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I'm running my own LAMP server locally.
Something i need to setup?
Should it be able to send email using php-mail,
without havin to configure smtp.
Check your phpinfo() information for STMP and the port. Do a test.php file and try to execute this.
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http://drupal.org/node/11570
That thread will help you out.
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Ah fixed it, well i didn't-one of our developers did.
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