Posted by Noodle on 01/04/07 11:04

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

The Apache and PHP version shouldn't matter. I've written a short
tutorial on congifuring mail for PHP here:
http://www.neilang.com/2006/12/php-sending-html-emails/

To test the connection to the SMTP server from your computer you could
try to telnet straight to the SMTP server from command prompt.
Otherwise I recommend installing the mail server that comes with XP Pro
and setting that as your mail server. I've used this before and it
works great with PHP4 after some configuration.

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