Posted by nvduffer on 08/11/06 14:46

Wow the one thing I failed to check -- case sensitivity! I changed
"smtp" to "SMTP", rebooted and now all is well in my world. Thanks very
much for putting and end to my frustrations!

Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:
> *** 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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