Configuring Windows SMTP Service with PHP

Serbian

Hey,

I am wondering if it is possible to configure PHP to send mail through the Windows SMTP service. I have a server and no access to a mail server, but in ASP I can send mail no problem through the Windows SMTP service. Is it possible to do something similar with PHP?

Below is the relevant piece of my php.ini.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [email]noreply@server.com[/email]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

When I try to send mail, I get:

Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()

Anyone ever set this up?

Failing that, anyone have any good tutorials for setting up a mail server? (And maybe recommendations on free ones to use?)

Many thanks!

Serb

ronanm

Tried a few found this to be the easiest windows based server to setup and configure and its "Free for non-commercial use".

Obviously, turn off your IIS SMTP server first.
http://theemailserver.com/

Serbian

Hey Ronanm,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I need the SMTP service to be running since there are a bunch of ASP scripts running on the same server and I don't have a second server to run the mail server on. Guess I am just going to do without!

Serb

seamus

Weird, have you tried putting in 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in your php.ini. In theory it shouldn't make a difference but sometimes it does. I have a ISS Smtp server sending mail fine from PHP scripts on Apache on my machine.