mail(): ' Warning: Failed to Connect in ... on line ...'

[Paolo]

Hi everybody,
I'm a newbie using PHP4 and Apache 1.3 on Win98.

When I launch a script just having this instruction:

mail ("test.address@example.com", "My Subject", "My message");

I got this annoying message:

Warning: Failed to Connect in myscript.php on line ...

Of course the e-mail address provided is a real one; I have also
changed in the following way the values in php.ini file :

SMTP=localhost;
sendmail_from=my.real.address@my.provider.com

Do you have any hints or suggestions ?

Any help will be very appreciated, thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Paolo

[Pedro]

Paolo wrote:

> changed in the following way the values in php.ini file :
>
> SMTP=localhost;

Do you have a SMTP server installed on your computer?
Try changing to SMTP=smtp.myprovider.com

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[Paulus Magnus]

"Paolo" <pscola@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody,
> I'm a newbie using PHP4 and Apache 1.3 on Win98.
>
> When I launch a script just having this instruction:
>
> mail ("test.address@example.com", "My Subject", "My message");
>
> I got this annoying message:
>
> Warning: Failed to Connect in myscript.php on line ...
>
> Of course the e-mail address provided is a real one; I have also
> changed in the following way the values in php.ini file :
>
> SMTP=localhost;
> sendmail_from=my.real.address@my.provider.com
>
> Do you have any hints or suggestions ?

You need to run a mail server on your machine to receive the outgoing email.
I assume this is a development environment as you're running Windows 98. I
use a product called PostCast Server which is a freebie, I'm not sure if it
works on Win98 though.

Pablo