Greetings,
I'd like some help.
I want to use php mail() in a web page to send email to my self. I have tried to figure out what to do for several days. I have searched web. I have set up Mercury mail as best I could following the directions at http://i-tech-life.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -with.html.
I made some changes to my sendmail.ini file and to my php.ini file.
I'm running xampp on a pc. I want to send to email to my comcast account.
Xamp control panel still tells me that SMTP is not enabled. I don't know if this is important but in any case I can't figure out how to enable SMTP.
I use outlook express to access my email. When I use the form I wrote to send email to my self outlook gives me this message:
Task 'root@localhost.com - Receiving' reported error (0x80042108) : 'Outlook cannot connect to your incoming (POP3) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'
So apparently it is getting something.
I can provide more info on the changes I made to sendmail.ini and to php.ini if necessary but what I'd really like is a complete set of instructions on how to set up XAMPP to allow the use of PHP to send email after writing a working web form for entering the necessary info. I can create the form and write the PHP.
It seems that this would be usefull to a lot of people since a major use of XAMPP is as a testing environment and this seems like something that people would want to test out if they are creating a web site.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John