[PHP] mail() function on Windows (WAMP Server)

[David Armstrong]

I'm in the process of helping some developers port their php application
from Linux to Windows (I know, string me up from the flag pole later).  I
have setup WAMP and everything is working fine with the exception of the
mail() function.  The code was originally developed on Linux and leveraged
sendmail for the mail() function.

What can I do to allow the php code to send mail from Windows?  I have
already tried installing the IIS SMTP service and that has not worked so
far.  The Windows box is Server 2008 R2 Standard, so IIS is 7.5 with the IIS
6.0 SMTP component.

Re: [PHP] mail() function on Windows (WAMP Server)

[David Armstrong]

I modified the php.ini in both the apache/bin directory, and also the php
directory.

Is there some way to get a trace of the code execution?  The SMTP log files
are completely worthless.  They do not show any sort of connection attempt.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:50, David Armstrong darmstrong...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I set the following parameters
 
  [mail function]
  ; For Win32 only.
  ; http://php.net/smtp
  SMTP = localhost
  ; http://php.net/smtp-port
  smtp_port = 25
  sendmail_from = valid account here

Per list rules, please hit reply-all and post your response
 below the quoted email in the future.  Thanks.

Did you set these as such before or after you last tested?  And
 did you restart Apache/IIS after saving your changes to the php.ini
 file?  And lastly, are you certain you edited the correct php.ini
 file?  If accessing the script via the web, check out the
 Configuration File Path and, specifically, the Loaded Configuration
 File entries in your phpinfo() output.

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  /Daniel P. Brown
 Network Infrastructure Manager
 Documentation, Webmaster Teams
 http://www.php.net/

Re: [PHP] mail() function on Windows (WAMP Server)

[David Armstrong]

Thanks Daniel.  I will suggest that to the developer and see if we can get
some useful information to further the troubleshooting process.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:02, David Armstrong darmstrong...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I modified the php.ini in both the apache/bin directory, and also the php
  directory.
  Is there some way to get a trace of the code execution?  The SMTP log
 files
  are completely worthless.  They do not show any sort of connection
 attempt.

 Per list rules, please hit reply-all and post your response
  below the quoted email in the future.  Thanks.

You can do a debug_print_backtrace()[1] call right after the call
 to mail(), or you can use a profiler like Xdebug[2].  You can also
 check the Apache error log to see if anything popped up.  It'll be
 more helpful if you have error_reporting set to E_ALL, mind you.  If
 you just want to see if mail() is encountering any errors itself, wrap
 the call in an `if` condition block:

 ?php

 if (!mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers)) {
die('Call to mail() failed in '.__FILE__.'#'.(__LINE__ -
 1).'.'.PHP_EOL);
 }
 ?

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  /Daniel P. Brown
 Network Infrastructure Manager
 Documentation, Webmaster Teams
 http://www.php.net/