Posted by Alvaro G. Vicario on 08/10/06 22:01

*** nvduffer@gmail.com escribió/wrote (10 Aug 2006 11:57:08 -0700):
> I am running IIS5 on my XP Pro home computer and am unable to send
> email through my ISP's mail server. In the PHP.INI are two lines:
>
> smtp = smtp.telus.net
> smtp_port = 25
>
> I have opened port 25 on my own computer (do I need to though?)

Actually, you shouldn't ;-)

> The strange thing is, the mail() function seems to be trying to connect
> to "localhost" and not "smtp.telus.net". There is only one PHP.INI file
> (in C:\WINDOWS) and I have run phpinfo() to confirm that this indeed is
> the INI file being loaded. However phpinfo() states that the SMTP
> server is "localhost" and not "smtp.telus.net".

Apparently, directives are case sensitive. Try to specify SMTP in
uppercase, as in manual and comments:

SMTP = smtp.telus.net
smtp_port = 25



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