I keep getting this error when I try to send an e-mail in PHP:
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:\wamp\www\dressoholic\register.php on line 50
my php.ini looks like this:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = you#yoursite.com
I'm using my laptop as a server.. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
You need to be running a mail server locally.
If this is Unix, enable sendmail
If this is Windows install the Simple Mail Transfer Server (not sure if the name is correct) component of IIs. E.g. for windows 2003 follow this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8b83ac7t.aspx
For sending mails using php mail function is used.
But mail function requires SMTP server for sending emails.
we need to mention SMTP host and SMTP port in php.ini file.
Upon successful configuration of SMTP server mails will be sent successfully sent through php scripts.
On windows, nearly all AMPP (Apache,MySQL,PHP,PHPmyAdmin) packages don't include a mail server (but nearly all naked linuxes do have!). So, when using PHP under windows, you need to setup a mail server!
Imo the best and most simple tool ist this: http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
SMTP4Dev is a simple one-file mail server tool that does collect the mails it send (so it does not really sends mail, it just keeps them for development). Perfect tool.
If you are running your application just on localhost and it is not yet live, I believe it is very difficult to send mail using this.
Once you put your application online, I believe that this problem should be automatically solved. But i think ini_set() helps you to change the values in php.ini during run time.
First of all, you aren't forced to use an SMTP on your localhost, if you change that localhost entry into the DNS name of the MTA from your ISP provider (who will let you relay mail) it will work right away, so no messing about with your own email service. Just try to use your providers SMTP servers, it will work right away.
PHP mail function can send email in 2 scenarios:
a. Try to send email via unix sendmail program
At linux it will exec program "sendmail", put all params to sendmail and that all.
OR
b. Connect to mail server (using smtp protocol and host/port/username/pass from php.ini) and try to send email.
If php unable to connect to email server it will give warning (and you see such workning in your logs)
To solve it, install smtp server on your local machine or use any available server. How to setup / configure smtp you can find on php.net
Change SMTP=localhost to SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
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I keep getting this error when I try to send an e-mail in PHP:
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:\wamp\www\dressoholic\register.php on line 50
my php.ini looks like this:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = you#yoursite.com
I'm using my laptop as a server.. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
You need to be running a mail server locally.
If this is Unix, enable sendmail
If this is Windows install the Simple Mail Transfer Server (not sure if the name is correct) component of IIs. E.g. for windows 2003 follow this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8b83ac7t.aspx
For sending mails using php mail function is used.
But mail function requires SMTP server for sending emails.
we need to mention SMTP host and SMTP port in php.ini file.
Upon successful configuration of SMTP server mails will be sent successfully sent through php scripts.
On windows, nearly all AMPP (Apache,MySQL,PHP,PHPmyAdmin) packages don't include a mail server (but nearly all naked linuxes do have!). So, when using PHP under windows, you need to setup a mail server!
Imo the best and most simple tool ist this: http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
SMTP4Dev is a simple one-file mail server tool that does collect the mails it send (so it does not really sends mail, it just keeps them for development). Perfect tool.
If you are running your application just on localhost and it is not yet live, I believe it is very difficult to send mail using this.
Once you put your application online, I believe that this problem should be automatically solved. But i think ini_set() helps you to change the values in php.ini during run time.
First of all, you aren't forced to use an SMTP on your localhost, if you change that localhost entry into the DNS name of the MTA from your ISP provider (who will let you relay mail) it will work right away, so no messing about with your own email service. Just try to use your providers SMTP servers, it will work right away.
PHP mail function can send email in 2 scenarios:
a. Try to send email via unix sendmail program
At linux it will exec program "sendmail", put all params to sendmail and that all.
OR
b. Connect to mail server (using smtp protocol and host/port/username/pass from php.ini) and try to send email.
If php unable to connect to email server it will give warning (and you see such workning in your logs)
To solve it, install smtp server on your local machine or use any available server. How to setup / configure smtp you can find on php.net
Change SMTP=localhost to SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
I keep getting this error when I try to send an e-mail in PHP:
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:\wamp\www\dressoholic\register.php on line 50
my php.ini looks like this:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = you#yoursite.com
I'm using my laptop as a server.. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
You need to be running a mail server locally.
If this is Unix, enable sendmail
If this is Windows install the Simple Mail Transfer Server (not sure if the name is correct) component of IIs. E.g. for windows 2003 follow this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8b83ac7t.aspx
For sending mails using php mail function is used.
But mail function requires SMTP server for sending emails.
we need to mention SMTP host and SMTP port in php.ini file.
Upon successful configuration of SMTP server mails will be sent successfully sent through php scripts.
On windows, nearly all AMPP (Apache,MySQL,PHP,PHPmyAdmin) packages don't include a mail server (but nearly all naked linuxes do have!). So, when using PHP under windows, you need to setup a mail server!
Imo the best and most simple tool ist this: http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
SMTP4Dev is a simple one-file mail server tool that does collect the mails it send (so it does not really sends mail, it just keeps them for development). Perfect tool.
If you are running your application just on localhost and it is not yet live, I believe it is very difficult to send mail using this.
Once you put your application online, I believe that this problem should be automatically solved. But i think ini_set() helps you to change the values in php.ini during run time.
First of all, you aren't forced to use an SMTP on your localhost, if you change that localhost entry into the DNS name of the MTA from your ISP provider (who will let you relay mail) it will work right away, so no messing about with your own email service. Just try to use your providers SMTP servers, it will work right away.
PHP mail function can send email in 2 scenarios:
a. Try to send email via unix sendmail program
At linux it will exec program "sendmail", put all params to sendmail and that all.
OR
b. Connect to mail server (using smtp protocol and host/port/username/pass from php.ini) and try to send email.
If php unable to connect to email server it will give warning (and you see such workning in your logs)
To solve it, install smtp server on your local machine or use any available server. How to setup / configure smtp you can find on php.net
Change SMTP=localhost to SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
Here's what's in my php.ini file:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
Is it possible to simply change localhost to smtp.live.com and change the port (smtp_port) to point to a different port (specifically, 567, as required by Microsoft) in order to send email to a Microsoft Live email address via PHP? I tried the normal mail() route, but I never received the email from the script, and can only assume it has to do with SMTP authentication. I don't have very much experience with PHP.
No, that won't work. smtp.live.com requires authentication, and the PHP mail() command does not support authentication. As Pascamel suggested, you should use a library that supports sending mail through a remote SMTP server using authentication. phpmailer is very good.
Have a look at PHPMailer : https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
I'm using it to send emails through a GMail account, settings are pretty easy!
This way you won't have to update your php.ini
in php.ini you can change smtp server to different server ONLY for WINDOWS machines.
You can't do it for unix machines. it just ignores even if you set smtp = yourserver.
I want to send an e-mail using a php code,I am using wampserver.
an error appear :
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:\wamp\www\Newsletter1\index.php on line 29
My file php.ini
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = myEmail#gmail.com
Is there any more configuration to do?
Update
I'am using the mail function to send a newsletter to subscriber and I am testing now locally then I will test the code on production environment
You need a SMTP mailserver daemon running on localhost. If you are using a unix host and you don't want to setup a full SMTP agent, try removing the SMTP config part, thus directly using sendmail. From the docs:
The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine).
Check your Firewall maybe php is blocked to connect server. Or try change localhost to 127.0.0.1 .
You need either smtp server on your server or you need to connect to external smtp server to send email.
to connect via external smtp you can use
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail
here is answer to your question as well with an example of how to use it.
smtp configuration for php mail
If you are working on a test environement look at this link: http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/
This little app will simulate an SMTP server on your computer.
It gives you some hint on how to test and debug mail features for your php applications.
I am trying to send email in my local using PHP mail function but email are not send. Also it shows a warning message as below.
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost"
port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini
Basically you cant send mail from your localhost, if you haven't configured SMTP. So for configuration you can do it as following:
If you open the php.ini file, you will find these two lines:
smtp_server
smtp_port
Add the server and port number for your host (you may need to contact them for details)
So you will need to add them to be able to send mail from a server that requires authentication. So an example may be:
smtp_server = mail.example.com or any IP address(where SMTP is configured)
smtp_port = 25
And if required, then add the following two lines don't exist:
auth_username = username
auth_password = pw
Think it will help.
Sounds like you don't have a SMTP server running on your machine, see if you can telnet to port 25 on your local machine to see if it is running or not. Or perhaps your mailserver is configured to listen on another port and PHP is configured to try the default port of 25.
Looks like your server doesn't have a smtp mailserver running. You could use these functions to set a different smtp server:
ini_set('SMTP', "server.com");
ini_set('smtp_port', "25");
ini_set('sendmail_from', "email#domain.com");
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/
The error message is self-explained. The mail() function cannot connect to your mail server. Check your mail server settings.
Try to telnet to port 25 to see whether you can connect to mail server.
Use PHPMailer Instead. It has good support for all mailing problems.
Here you can find dozens of Examples