Help Needed Configuring External Mailserver For Yii Contact Form

[zubo 0]

Hi

 

Not having any help at yii forums hoped someone here might take pity:

 

I was trying to test the contact form and got the following error

 

14:36:42.101721 error php

 

mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: Failed to connect to

mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP"

and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set()

(C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\testdrive\protected\controllers\SiteController.php:61)

Stack trace:

#0 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\framework\web\CController.php(309):

CInlineAction->runWithParams()

#1 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\framework\web\CController.php(287):

SiteController->runAction()

#2 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\framework\web\CController.php(266):

SiteController->runActionWithFilters()

#3 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\framework\web\CWebApplication.php(276):

SiteController->run()

#4 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\framework\web\CWebApplication.php(135):

CWebApplication->runController()

#5 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\framework\base\CApplication.php(162):

CWebApplication->processRequest()

#6 C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\testdrive\index.php(13): CWebApplication->run()

REQUEST_URI=/Yiiroot2/testdrive/index.php/site/contact

in C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\testdrive\protected\controllers\SiteController.php

(61)

in C:\wamp\www\yiiroot2\testdrive\index.php (13)

 

so looking at an answer in google ... the suggestion was to set

 

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

; http://php.net/smtp

SMTP = mail.geosz.com

; http://php.net/smtp-port

smtp_port = 25

 

where my smtp is my remote smtp mail server

 

i also set a parameter for sendmail_from = george@geosz.com

 

so i am puzzled why i get the error

 

anyone help me??

 

george

[Larry 429]

Well, to be clear, this isn't a Yii issue but a PHP-mail one. I suspect the code you've posted won't work because mail.geosz.com probably requires authentication--username and password. That's not possible just by editing the php.ini file.

 

Do you have an ISP you're using whose SMTP server doesn't require authentication?

[zubo 0]

Thanks Larry...

 

Yes it is probably an authentication issue....

 

Need to dig deeper