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can any tell me how to send mails from site using mail() in php
do we need to change in the php.ini
these are in php.ini
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = me@example.com
and i tried with this example it is giving me the message saying "message successfully sent" but there is no mail in my inbox
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head><body>
<?php
$to = "email@example.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
if (!is_null($to))
{
mail($to, $subject, $body);
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}
?>
</body>
</html>
[edited by: eelixduppy at 6:41 am (utc) on Dec. 24, 2008]
[edit reason] removed specifics [/edit]
Have you looked at your server's error logs?
You have to mention SMTP. SMTP must not be localhost also check SMTP port is opened in your PC or in server.
THanks
Mahabub
Also, have you attempted to send mail to address outside your domain ?
