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" <not@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:36 PM
To: <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: req: help with mail on IIS 6
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:53 GMT Niel Archer <not@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 = me@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > 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 = "me@xxxxxxxxxxxx";
> > $subject = "Test mail";
> > $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
> > $from = "me@xxxxxxxxxxxx";
> > $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 = 'you@xxxxxxx';
$subject = 'Test mail';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: me@xxxxxx' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: wme@xxxxxx' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($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 <user@xxxxxxxxxxx>' , is
doesn't work on Windows. If I recall correctly, the function silently
fails with these.
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