RE: [PHP-WIN] Mail Function Not Working

> From: rquadling@googlemail.com > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:54:24 +0100 > To: keithdavis@pridedallas.com > CC: ajwei@alumni.iu.edu; php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Mail Function Not Working > > On 12 April 2010 14:47, Keith Davis <keithdavis@pridedallas.com> wrote: > > Why are you using Live's SMTP servers? Is this hosted on live.com? If it > > is not, I am sure they will require authentication, if thy allow for > > this at all. If it is hosted there, probably needs to be localhost as > > the smtp server. > > > > Keith Davis (214) 906-5183 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alice Wei [mailto:ajwei@alumni.iu.edu] > > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:20 AM > > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Mail Function Not Working > > > > Hi, > > > > I have an issue here where I see no PHP errors on my mail function > > usage, and yet I am not getting the mail in the desired account. Here is > > what I have for my PHP code: > > > > $headers = "From: ajwei@alumni.iu.edu" ; $to = $email; $subject = > > "Comments Regarding My Site"; $body = "From: $your_name\n E-Mail: > > $email\n Reason Contact: $question\n Comments:\n $comments"; mail($to, > > $subject, $body,$headers); > > > > This is what I have in my PHP.ini: > > > > [mail > > function] > > ; For Win32 only. > > SMTP = smtp.live.com > > smtp_port = > > 587 > > > > ; For Win32 only. > > sendmail_from = ajwei@alumni.iu.edu > > > > ; > > For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t > > -i"). > > ;sendmail_path = > > > > ; Force the addition of the specified > > parameters to be passed as extra parameters ; to the sendmail binary. > > These parameters will always replace the value of ; the 5th parameter > > to mail(), even in safe mode. > > ;mail.force_extra_parameters = > > > > Yet, I don't see any mail in the mail box with the address $email is at. > > Can anyone on the list please give me some pointers on what I may have > > done wrong here? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > Alice > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from > > your inbox. > > > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL: > > ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 > > > > This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential or otherwise privileged > > information and is intended only for the individual(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not the > > named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your > > system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or error-free as information could be > > intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender > > therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message or > > that arise as a result of e-mail transmission.. If verification is required please request a > > hard-copy version from the sender. > > > > www.pridedallas.com > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > The recipient (held in $email) needs to be an address held on the > live.com server. > > You will not be able to use the live.com mail servers to send email to > me (at GMail.com), for example. > > That is called relaying and more specifically, due to the lack of > security, an open relay. > > If you want to use live.com to send email to someone not on their > servers, then you would need to use authentication. This may not be > just a case of a username/password, but also logging into your POP3 > mailbox as a proof of a "real" program and user. > > > > -- > ----- > Richard Quadling > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html > EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp > Zend Certified Engineer : > http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > No, the site I am creating is not on the live.com server, so in this case, looks like I would be relaying it. From what you said, looks like POP3, pop3.live.com is not going to work either. I have set up Windows Mail as my default mail program, but if relaying is not going to work, then which addresses can I use to send emails to recipients who use the site? Thanks for your help. Alice _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1