Question

I am using xampp 1.7.4 (PHP 5.3.5) and when i send emails to my email address its working. and even i used mail server as examples its not working. below is the code.

<?php
    ini_set("SMTP","mail.sweetinteractive.com");
    $suc = mail("[e-mail]","Learning PHP","Message is not working ","From: [e-mail]");
    if($suc){
        echo "Mail sent";
    } else {
        echo "Mail sending Failed.";
    }
?>

And even i tried out working with our mail server. But its showing and error

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 Access denied - Invalid HELO name (See RFC2821 4.1.1.1) in C:\xampp\htdocs\LearnPhp\email1.php on line 3

Answer 1

Please configure your php.ini and sendmail.ini files in xampp folder.

First : need to change the fields in php.ini (rootdrive:\xampp\php\php.ini)

---

(Note : semicolon ‘;’ signifies a comments in ini files)

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = mail.sweetinteractive.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

second step : change the sendmail.ini file (rootdirectory:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini)

---

note : remove semicolon (;) form give below fields
and make changes in sendmail.ini file

smtp_server=mail.sweetinteractive.com

; smtp port (normally 25)

smtp_port=25

auth_username=[e-mail]
auth_password=give your password here without any quotes

I believe this should gonna work. Because you are not providing any authentication parameters in previous post.

Note : after making the changes in php.ini and sendmail.ini files, stop the apache service from Xampp control panel and run it again.

and your php code

---

<?php
    ini_set("SMTP","mail.sweetinteractive.com");
    $suc = mail("[e-mail]","Learning PHP","Message sending will work now","From: [e-mail]");
    if($suc){
        echo "Mail sent";
    } else {
        echo "Mail sending Failed.";
    }
?>