Re: Prob with Send mail using mail()

Mian Shafiq-Ur-Rehman wrote: > <? > $email ="msrehman@mail.com"; > $subject="Hai Dear Friend"; > $message="Testing PHP mail"; > $headers=" "; > mail($email ,$subject,$message,$headers) > ?> First, it is not necessary to send a BLANK headers string in your call to the mail function... simply call it like this: mail($email, $subject, $message); Also, note that you left off the final ";" (semi-colon) on the line which calls the mail function... just check to make sure the line is terminated with a semi-colon in your script. > AND the settings in php.ini are > > SMTP = leo > sendmail_from = me@localhost.com OK, there are 2 scenarios you can use when accessing your SMTP server... 1) you have the SMTP server installed on the SAME computer as your running web server -or- 2) you have the SMTP server running on another computer/server, to which you have DIRECT IP access (via DNS naming, or static IP addressing) - for the sake of our example, I'll say the SMTP server is on "mysmtp.mydomain.com" or IP address "123.123.123.123". Here's what your PHP.INI lines should look like in either of these cases... For Example 1 - SMTP on same computer as Web Server - SMTP = localhost sendmail_from = myusername@localhost For Example 2 - SMTP on differenct computer - SMTP = mysmtp.mydomain.com sendmail_from = myusername@mydomain.com - or - SMTP = 123.123.123.123 sendmail_from = myusername@123.123.123.123 So, depending on your setup of the web server and it's access to the SMTP server, you'll use one of these examples, substituting the correct values for "myusername", "mydomain", etc. That help at all? -- Andy Hoffman Web Developer Bristol-Myers Squibb email: andy.hoffman@bms.com