form and mail relay

[maxelcat]

Dear All

I have a script that I have used on several websites that processes a simple form and then sends an email. It works fine.

However, on my latest site I get this error

PHP Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\webspace\reseller\web27000\lvhs.org.uk\

http://www\development\lvhs_contact_form.php

on line 91

Conversations with the provider assure me that I need to put a line(s) of code to "pass the form to a mail relay" and the have given me this inbound1.equinoxit.net

trouble is, even after some googling I don't know how to do this!

Can anybody help please

Thanks in advance
Edward

Here's the code

<?php 
if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) { // if we get in this first part of the if clause the form has been submitted. next job then is to check the fields.


$errors = array();// declare the array that will hold all the error messages


		//check first_name
			if (empty($_POST['first_name'])) {
			$errors[]= 'you forgot to enter your first name<br />';
			} else {
			$first_name = stripslashes(trim($_POST['first_name']));
			}

		//check lastname
			if (empty($_POST['last_name'])) {
			$errors[]= 'you forgot to enter your last name<br />';
			} else {
			$last_name = stripslashes(trim($_POST['last_name']));
			}


		//check for phone_number
			if (empty($_POST['phone_number'])) {
			$phone = 'No number given';
			}else{
			$phone = trim($_POST['phone_number']);
			}


		//check email_1 is not empty
			if (empty($_POST['email_one'])) 	{
			$errors[] = 'you forgot to enter an email address.<br />';
			
			} else { //check the two emails agree
				if ($_POST['email_one'] != $_POST['email_two']) {
				$errors[] = 'your email and confirmation email address do not match.<br />';
				} else {
				$email_one = trim($_POST['email_one']);
				}
			}
			
		//check the enquiry field has something in it!
			if (empty($_POST['comment'])) {
			$errors[] = 'you forgot to write a comment!';
			} else {
			$comment = stripslashes(trim($_POST['comment']));
			}




		//use $errors array. If its empty we can create and send the email message. If its not
		//empty then something must be wrong so print out the error messages

		if (empty($errors))	{
		//echo "<tr><td colspan=\"3\">";
		
		//create the message:
		$message = 'email message from '.$first_name.' '.$last_name."\n";
		$message .='contact phone (if left) '.$phone."\n";
		$message .='email address = '.$email_one."\n\n\n";
		$message .='Enquiry = '.$comment;"\n";
		$to = "edward@eldon.gotadsl.co.uk";
		$subject = "Enquiry from lea Valley High School Website";
		$headers = "From: ".$email_one;
		//$headers .= "Reply-to: ".$email_one;
		
		//send email
		mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
		
		echo "<h3>Success!</h3><p>Your comment has been sent to Lea Valley High School.</p>\n";
		echo "</td></tr>";
		include ('lvhs_form_footer.html');
		exit(); //everythings all ok, so just finsih here
		} else	{
		//echo "<tr><td colspan=\"3\">";
		echo "<h3>You haven't quite done the form correctly...</h3><p />\n";
		foreach ($errors as $msg) {
			echo "<p class=\"form_error_message\">$msg</p>\n";
			}
		//echo "</td></tr>";
		echo "<hr />";
		} //end of checking the errors array if conditional
		

}//end of main submit conditional
?>

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[vacunita]

You'll need to set the SMTP server to use for the mail function. is what they are telling you.

From what i'm seeing this is a Windows Machine, and as such does not a have default mail server installed like a Unix machine would, for the mail() function to use in localhost.

You'll have to use ini_set to set the SMTP server to the string they gave you.

ini_set("SMTP","inbound1.equinoxit.net");

the PHP onlne is your friend fir this type of thing.

http://www.php.net

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[maxelcat]

Thanks for that - added the line as you suggested and got htis...

PHP Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 Relaying not permitted (3.7): edward@eldon.gotadsl.co.uk in C:\webspace\reseller\web27000\lvhs.org.uk\

http://www\development\lvhs_contact_form.php

on line 94

... does htis mean that when they say I need to relay they are wrong?

Thanks again

Edward

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[vacunita]

It means the smtp server they provided does not allow relaying.

Did they give you a value for the sendmail_from directive.

I can't understand why they would tell you to relay and then give you an address of an smtp server that wont allow relaying.
I'm puzzled...


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[maxelcat]

Thaks - you confiremed what I thought - I don't know a huge amount, but I am not convinced they do either!


I will call them and let you know!


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