Hi,

I'm trying to set up a page that emails the contents of a form to a specified email address. I had this working fine on a Linux server but the site has now been transferred to a server running Windows Server 2003 (don't ask why, it just has!! :rolleyes:), and now the script to send the mail doesn't work anymore. Here is my script:

<?ob_start();?>
<?php
ini_set("SMTP","mydomain.co.uk");
ini_set("smtp_port","25");
ini_set("sendmail_from","email@mydomain.co.uk");

$name = $_POST['name'];
$businessname = $_POST['businessname'];
$type = $_POST['type'];
$tel = $_POST['tel'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

$subject = "You have received a message from: ".$name."";
$message = stripcslashes($message);
$emailcontent = "<img src=\"innologo5.png\" style=\"float:right;\"/><font face=\"verdana, arial, sans serif\">
<h3>You have received a message from:</h3><p />
<b>Name:</b>&nbsp;".$name."<p />
<b>".$name." is enquiring as a:</b>&nbsp;".$type."<p />";
if (isset($_POST['businessname'])){
$emailcontent .="<b>".$name."'s company:</b>&nbsp;".$businessname."<p />";
}
$emailcontent .="<b>".$name."'s contact number:</b>&nbsp;".$tel."<p />
<b>".$name."'s email address:</b>&nbsp;".$email."<p />
<b>".$name."'s message:</b><p />
".$message."</font>";

$from = "From: My name\r\n";
$from .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
$from .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$from .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

$address = "email@domain.co.uk";

mail($address, $subject, $emailcontent, $from);

if (!mail($address, $subject, $emailcontent, $from)) {
echo "problem";
exit;
}

exit;
?>
<?ob_flush();?>

There's nothing wrong with the POST data from the form because if I just echo the $_POST variables they work fine :), so I know for sure that it's the mail() function that is the problem. Please help!!

Hi

is it shared hosting?? if so its possible PHPMail is disabled. Try using SMTP in your script with SMTP authentication.

On windows server, php scripts usually use phpmailer class to send email.
Just do a google search you will find plenty of tutorial to update your code.

For PHP on Windows, you have to relay through a SMTP server because the default method of calling Sendmail doesn't work (Sendmail being a Unix program). Usually, the IIS SMTP Server is used if you don't have access to a real mail server. You need to set the SMTP server address in the php.ini file and be sure that SMTP support is enabled in PHP.

Hello,

You should also check if the mydomain.co.uk allows port 25 connections. If not allow it from the firewall settings.

Regards

Yes, set up the SMTP.
There are some other workarounds, I've done it for vBulletin, but this is easier.