mailserver question

[nancy_kelpie]

Does someone how I can attach a mail server to a php site?
For example to send a new member who just registered a mail with "welcome this are your username and password".

I use php dev 4.2.3 and the mailserver is a qk mail server.

[Cota]

Using php your mail server is almost irrelevant It will use whatever the default mail object is. Can be more specific about what you want to do, or post what you already thus far.

[nancy_kelpie]

It's actually a problem my boyfriend has, I know nothing about it.
But I will post here what he says. (so sorry if something is confusing... I hardly know where I'm talking about what I post here.)

He made a server from his own computer. He has a website on this server and a mail server. The problem is that the website doesn't make contact with the mail server.

He downloaded a standard package from firepages.
It includes a server appache, bb forum and a php website.
The php website is like a template. He wants to change, so i't becomes his website. There is also a register function in this website. This register function should send an email to a person who just registered. But he never receives the mail.

He can send emails from his mailserver tough.
He can send emails with outlook over the server. But not from the website over the server.

His mailserver is on his own computer and it's a QK smpt server.

This is what he has untill now:

..\windows\php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.bis.com //

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = admin@bis.com 


....\conf.php

$SMTP_USER='admin@bis.com';
$SMTP_PASS='************';
$SMTP_HOST='local'; //

Is local ok? or should he replace it with his ip server?

And is this: SMTP = mail.bis.com also ok?

[Cota]

appache should have installed the mail object by default. Use this to test the mail object. Copy this into a PHP file, change the email addresses, and run it. See if he gets the email

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'MyEmail@Domain.com';

$ok = mail('MyEmail@Domain.com','Test' , 'Test message', $headers);
	if($ok) {
		echo "Mail Object is Good";
	} else {
		echo "Booooooo";
}

[johnboulder]

Originally Posted by nancy_kelpie

This is what he has untill now:

..\windows\php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.bis.com //

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = admin@bis.com 


....\conf.php

$SMTP_USER='admin@bis.com';
$SMTP_PASS='************';
$SMTP_HOST='local'; //

Is local ok? or should he replace it with his ip server?

And is this: SMTP = mail.bis.com also ok?

$SMTP_HOST should be 'mail.bis.com' - if he's using a local host as a mail server, then why specify one host name in one place, and another later - PHP is good at getting what it needs - but I would cosider commenting out the 'win32 only' section.

If you'd rather keep it, try enclosing it in quotes:
SMTP = 'mail.bis.com'

Though I think, if he's using a local mail server, this would be more appropriateL
SMTP = 'localhost'

Get him to check his apache config, and also his mail server settings - if he's still struggling, post back what he has here.

Regards