[thelist] mail() on windows server

[Bob Meetin]

Bob,

Windows is requiring you to use SMTP to send your e-mail. Your best best 
is to download the PHP Mailer Class[1] and extend it to fit your own 
purposes. That should work just fine.

[1] - http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/index.php?pg=sf&p=dl 
<http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/index.php?pg=sf&p=dl>

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-Jack Timmons
http://www.trotlc.com

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Okay, I've been going through the suggestions and still haven't gotten 
this to work.   I could very easily punt and move the site to hostgator 
(takes 15 minutes max) and get it to work or keep plugging at this.

On the windows server I have tried some of the options that suggest to 
make changes to the php.ini, but I have to do via .htaccess to set the 
smtp server but no luck.  I also added a couple lines in the contact.php 
file which, if I understand, should make this work, but also no luck.  
In contact.php:

ini_set("sendmail_from", "bobm at dottedi.biz");
#ini_set("smtp", "smtp-9.luxsci.com"); // preferred choice
ini_set("smtp", "mail.dottedi.biz"); // should work fine
ini_set("smtp_port", "25");

I took a look at phpmailer.  I like it and am able to get it to work on 
the linux server, but not windows using the same SMTP settings.  I don't 
think it is a problem with the path as it seems to attempt to connect.  
phpmailer includes a function to email attachments - I will use that for 
other purposes.

Before I punt and move the domain, any other suggestions?  At this point 
it's just to know....

Thx, Bob