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Posted by oopsbabies on 01/04/07 15:20
Hi,
Further information:
I know a personal acquaintaince who works for the ISP.I talked to him
and he assures that no authentication is needed. He is also a PHP
programmer. Perhaps being inside the ISP's intranet he doesn't require
one.
When I try the telnet command "open" with the ISP's SMTP address and
the port 25, the function returns so abruptly (within a blink of an
eye) with a connection failure message. But when tried with different
port address (23) it takes some time for the failure message to come.
Maybe this means something.
I am using the email account from my ex-ISP. It requires username and
password. When I use MS-OUTLOOK I access the ex-ISP through the current
ISP. So in the MS-OUTLOOK the POP3 is that of my ex-ISP and the SMTP is
of the current ISP
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> oopsbabies@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am using Apache 1.3.33 as the web server and PHP version 4.3.10. My
> > machine is using Windows XP 2002 professional edition which comes with
> > a Windows firewall. I am using McAfee free edition for anti-virus.
> >
> > I use an ISP provider from my country and according to them I do not
> > need to perform authentication while sending mails through their SMTP
> > address. Thus I am using external SMTP server. I don't have IIS
> > installed in my computer nor do I have an SMTP server running.
> >
> > I tried the PHP's mail(...) function but the function fails. It reports
> > that the connection to the SMTP host cannot be made. I set the SMTP
> > host using the ini_set function as well as editing the php.ini and
> > specifying the host (then again restarting Apache server). This doesn't
> > help. The mail function still fails with the same error. Disabled the
> > Windows firewall and McAfee anti-virus. But the same problem persists.
> >
> > Thinking that I may have somehow messed up the header information or
> > not properly using CRLF, I used the phpmailer class. The classes have
> > been installed properly.
> >
> > The phpmailer's send(..) function also fails with the error:
> >
> > Debug Warning: C:\Program Files\Pcounter Web
> > Report\www\libraries\class.smtp.php line 177 - fsockopen(): unable to
> > connect to smtp.wlink.com.np:25
> >
> > I am using the default port that is 25. Verified that my ISP provider
> > also uses port 25 for SMTP.
> >
> > I debugged the phpmailer class and the fsockopen(..) function fails as
> > you can also see from the above error message.
> >
> > fsockopen function returns false.
> >
> > The $errno = 10053 and the $errstr = "An established connection was
> > aborted by a software in your host machine"
> >
> > Again disabling the firewall and McAfee the same error is reported.
> >
> > Could the reason for the problem be that I am using quite old PHP and
> > Apache version. I searched the entire php.net sites but the exact
> > problem is not faced by anyone. I guess no one uses Apache 1.3.33
> > anymore. Could the incompatibility between Apache and PHP causing this?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated very much
> >
>
> I would be VERY surprised if they don't require any authentication.
> This would leave them wide open to spammers, and within minutes of being
> discovered they would be on every spam blacklist in the world.
>
> Rather, I suspect the person who indicated they don't require any
> authentication doesn't know what they're talking about.
>
> There are a couple of commonly used ways to authenticate for outbound
> mail - one is to require a userid/password to sign on to send email.
> Another is to require you to check your POP3/IMAP mailbox first.
> Checking that could give your IP address (i.e.) 30 minutes of outbound
> mail without authentication. Then you would have to check your incoming
> mailbox again.
>
> --
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstucklex@attglobal.net
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