Re: [PHP-WIN] req: help with mail on IIS 6

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions.

Mail() was definitely failing when I added some code to echo back the 
boolean response.

I tried sending to a different server where I could monitor what was going 
on, and Mail() opened a connection through the local SMTP service, but the 
service was sending a HELO of the Windows server name, not a FQDN, and my 
other mailserver was rejecting based on that. If I added a rule to allow 
relaying from the PHP server, mail went through fine.

That tells me PHP is able to control the local SMTP service...that is, it's 
not a security issue on the server itself.

Now, I just have to figure out why it's not working if "localhost" is 
specified in php.ini.

Unfortunately, this is a production server, and I can't change php.ini to 
test except during off hours :(

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From: "Niel Archer" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:36 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] req: help with mail on IIS 6

>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:53 GMT Niel Archer <[email protected]> wrote
>>
>> > > Hi All: Just joined the list.
>> > >
>> > > I'm having problems configuring mail in PHP. I have PHP 5.2.9 
>> > > installed on
>> > > server 2003 std with sp2 installed. The default SMTP service is 
>> > > running.
>> > > I'm running Wordpress without any problems, except for configuring 
>> > > mail.
>> > >
>> > > My php.ini file looks like:
>> > >
>> > > [mail function]
>> > > ; For Win32 only.
>> > > ;smtp = localhost
>> > > ;smtp = 127.0.0.1
>> > > smtp = 192.168.1.6
>> > > smtp_port = 25
>> > >
>> > > ; For Win32 only.
>> > > sendmail_from = [email protected]
>> > >
>> > > I've tried each of the three server addresses above, and none of them 
>> > > work.
>> > >
>> > > If I try to run a simple test like:
>> > >
>> > >     <?php
>> > >     $to = "[email protected]";
>> > >     $subject = "Test mail";
>> > >     $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
>> > >     $from = "[email protected]";
>> > >     $headers = "From: $from";
>> > >     mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
>> > >     echo "Mail Sent.";
>> > >     ?>
>> >
>> > $headers must be terminated by "\r\n"
>>
>> Thanks Neil...I went back to the php.net docs for "mail" and picked up 
>> their
>> example, with this syntax:
>>
>> <?php
>> $to      = '[email protected]';
>> $subject = 'Test mail';
>> $message = 'hello';
>> $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
>>     'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
>>     'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
>> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
>> ?>
>>
>> (I've replaced the actual "to" and "from" to dummy addresses)...still 
>> doesn't
>> work...I don't get an error when running the script, but no mail is sent.
>
> Do not use to or from fields in the 'User <[email protected]>' , is
> doesn't work on Windows.  If I recall correctly, the function silently
> fails with these.
>
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