Re: Mail Function Error

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> 
> Hi, 
> 
>   I am one of those people whose mail server is not on the local machine. It is on http://www.hotmail.com and the address is this email address. I currently constantly get this on my error log: 
> 
> [07-Feb-2009 06:39:15] PHP Warning:  mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: Failed to connect to mailserver at &quot;localhost&quot; port 25, verify your &quot;SMTP&quot; and &quot;smtp_port&quot; setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\apache\htdocs\Alice.Wei\projects\sbs\post.php on line 218
> 
> This is what is on my php.ini:
> 
> [mail function]
> ; For Win32 only.
> SMTP = localhost

You must change this to the address of a valid SMTP (email) server you
have an account on.   I do not belive hotmail supports SMTP acces (at
least not when I last looked several years ago).

> smtp_port = 25
> 
> ; For Win32 only.
> sendmail_from = ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Could anyone please give me some pointers on what to put in my php.ini file to make this work?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alice
> 
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