Posted by oopsbabies on 01/04/07 14:59

Hi,

Thank you for your response.

I looked into the site you have provided and I assure you that my code
to use the mail(..) is 100% correct. I have also consulted other sites
for the correct use of the mail(..) functions. I have set the necessay
PHP variables for this.

As you had suggested: I used the "telnet" program and when I try to
connect to my ISP's SMTP server through the telnet it fails. I
contacted my ISP and they also don't know the anwser on telnet's
failure. I asked them about authentication requirement and they said no
authentication is required. One thing is strange in that if I sent
mails through MS-OUTLOOK all mails are sent correctly and received at
the other end.

It seems I am lost here...

Noodle 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
>
> 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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