Thank you so much Sharley for your dedication and time for helping others!!You are awesome!
I know it could be frustrating sometimes to answer the similar questions over and over again....
If I leave the php.ini as is (no edit on it) this is the message I got:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your
"SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\2012_summercollege4kids
\includes_ck\processmail.inc.php on line 79The following is the section in the php.ini I think I should tweek the values, right? (I copy as is without any modification listed below)
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[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = Off
; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
;mail.log = "C:\xampp\php\logs\php_mail.log"
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If I turn on my Mercury Mail server I do not see any warning message, however I never receive any mails (which I would be if I load the exact script to a remote server) So I figure there is something in my XAMPP setting I need to tweek to make it work for me to send mail (say my someone@gmail.com) from my localhost. (I am forgetting this for now as you mentioned we should be able to send mail from a form just use the SENDMAIL.exe in xampp folder)So I read a few post on mail suggesting check with my local ISP, so I called which they tell me about mine
SMTP (smtp.att.yahoo.com and port 465)
The first thing I did was in the php.ini file
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step1:
SMTP = smtp.att.yahoo.com (I changed from localhost to what myISP told me)step2:
smtp_port = 465 (I changed from 25 to 465)step3:
sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost (I just uncommented)
step4:
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t" (I just uncommented this and leave the path as is because it is what I my path._____________________________________
same warning message appeared "Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\2012_summercollege4kids\includes_ck\processmail.inc.php on line 79"So I went into "sendmail" folder located the sendmail.ini, here is as is (before I did anything)
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; configuration for fake sendmail
; if this file doesn't exist, sendmail.exe will look for the settings in
; the registry, under HKLM\Software\Sendmail
[sendmail]
; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,
; or to IIS's "pickup" directory. (generally C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup)
; emails delivered via IIS's pickup directory cause sendmail to
; run quicker, but you won't get error messages back to the calling
; application.
smtp_server=localhost
; smtp port (normally 25)
smtp_port=25
; the default domain for this server will be read from the registry
; this will be appended to email addresses when one isn't provided
; if you want to override the value in the registry, uncomment and modify
;default_domain=local
; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable logging
error_logfile=error.log
; create debug log as debug.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable debugging
;debug_logfile=debug.log
; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines
;auth_username=
;auth_password=
; if your smtp server uses pop3 before smtp authentication, modify the
; following three lines
;pop3_server=
;pop3_username=
;pop3_password=
; to force the sender to always be the following email address, uncomment and
; populate with a valid email address. this will only affect the "MAIL FROM"
; command, it won't modify the "From: " header of the message content
;force_sender=me@localhost
; sendmail will use your hostname and your default_domain in the ehlo/helo
; smtp greeting. you can manually set the ehlo/helo name if required
;hostname=localhost
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I did not think I need to tweak the sendmail.ini as I do not care if the mail is send from "locahost", I do not need to make it appear to look like "brookesdomain.com". Is that the purpose of "sendmail.ini"
However I did change:
step1:
smtp_server=smtp.att.yahoo.com (changed from localhost)step2:
smtp_port=465(changed from 25)I did uncomment error_logfile, however I do not know where to find it.
I still see this:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\2012_summercollege4kids\includes_ck\processmail.inc.php on line 79So I am banging my head on the wall right now
I had my script send all the form message data to a database which I can see all the data (100 message I wrote to myself) are in the database, I just can not send to my own gmail account, or any account.
Thank you so much,