Home / server / Questions / 281784
Accepted
Explosion Pills
Asked: 2011-06-19 07:35:30 +0800 CST

Configuring apache/php to work with mail on windows

  • 772

I am not a server admin at all, so forgive me.

I uploaded my website to a new windows server and am using mail(), but it's returning false. This indicates to me that the server is not properly set up to send emails. My php.ini has

SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

which I believe is the default.

I don't even know where to go from here. How can I check if SMTP is installed and working on port 25 of localhost? If it is, how can I get it to work with php mail()? Do I need to change something in apache?

windows php email apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Windows doesn't (generally) run an SMTP daemon, so you'll need to set this SMTP value to the IP of a server that:

    1. Your server can connect directly to.
    2. Is running an SMTP daemon.
    3. Allows you to relay mail through it.
    • 2