Mail Function in PHP6 doesn't work

rbramble · September 25th, 2009, 10:56 AM

Hello,
I have been working through this book and some functions don't seem to work well. I am in chapter 11 now and can't seem to get the mail () to work.

I installed WAMP Server Apache 2.2.11, MySQL 5.1.36, PHP 6.0dev.
Copied the code from the book

Code:

<?php
mail('[email protected]', 'Hello World',
    'Hi, world. Prepare for our arrival. We are starving!');
?>

and it doesn't send mail. I also tried the postcard.php and tried to set up the mail correctly.
I have an external smtp mail server. I added a new user and password and correctly set up the service but can't get PHP6 to send mail.

I looked at phpmailer and it does work.

Would anybody be able to give me help on this topic?

Thanks in advance

Ron

thg · January 29th, 2010, 10:15 AM

I'm having trouble getting started with the same chapter.

My error message is:

Code:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\database\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\firstmail.php on line 3

I believe I have copied the code correctly:

Code:

<?php
mail('[email protected]', 'Hello World',
	'Hi, World.  Prepare for our arrival.  We are starving!');
?>

(I had a valid e-mail address in there.)

I did set "sendmail_from" in php.ini.

I have no confidence that my SMTP server (Free SMTP Server) is working properly, but it doesn't seem like php is getting as far as calling the SMTP server.

Thanks,
Tim

BozHogan · February 13th, 2010, 12:39 AM

I haven't gotten there yet, but since there haven't been any replies:

I recently reinstalled PHP using the windows installer. Having read this post, when I got to an option to include SMTP, I included it. I don't know if this will solve your problem yet, but thought there was a chance it might.

Hope this helps, and fingers crossed,
Boz