SMTP Setup

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

This must be a very "noob" question, but I have no idea how to configure smtp for my website. Please help. Thank you

Raven · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:26 pm

Is your site hostsed by someone else? Is it a IIS or Apache?

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

I host it myself its IIS

Raven · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:19 am

In your php.ini find this code, uncomment it, and modify it for your ISP mail settings

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = domain.net
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from =

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MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

Is there anyway to do smtp authentication?

Raven · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:33 pm

That is done through your email client, usually. Can you explain, in detail, what exactly you are trying to do?

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

I want you use my ISP's smtp server. but it requires login information (username and password) is there a way to enter this info? Thanks again for any help.

Raven · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:44 pm

So does mine Smile

. If you use Outlook Express, try this. In Your settings for the account your are using to relay, under the server tab

Incoming mail (Pop 3) mail.domain.com <== Your web hosting account domain
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) mail.ISP.net <== Your ISP

Then the username/pass is used from Outlook. Note that this requires that your ISP allows email relaying.

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

Ok, Im sorry... im pretty lost. (blonde moments.) Where do I enter this information? All I can find for entering it is in the php.ini and preferences on the admin page. php.ini doesn't have those fields (from what I see) and preferences doesn't have them just pop3 server and single account name. If you wanna get me out of your hair and talk on AIM (if you have it) just IM me at liltrip1129 so I dont keep wasting your time. Either way, sorry for wasting your time. I appreciate your help.

Raven · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:33 am

You don't enter it in php.ini. You are trying to use your ISP to relay your email. Most do, some don't. So, let's say your ISP uses mail.isp_name.net as their mail server and you have an email address of

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. In Outlook Express you will have an email account set up as

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, correct? Now if you select Tools->Accounts->Mail in Outlook Express you will have an entry of

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. Select Properties and then select the Server tab. You will see, amongst other things

Incoming Mail (POP3): mail.isp_name.net
Outgoing Mail (SMTP): mail.isp_name.net
Incoming Mail Server ---------------------------
Account Name: mranderson
Password: ********
Outgoing Mail Server ---------------------------
My server requires authentication (checked)

Now, everything so far is probably working, but you now have a new email address for your hosting account like

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. So, you need to create a new mail account that looks like ths:

Incoming Mail (POP3): mail.domain_name.com
Outgoing Mail (SMTP): mail.isp_name.net
Incoming Mail Server ---------------------------
Account Name:

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Password: ********
Outgoing Mail Server ---------------------------
My server requires authentication (checked)

Now the password for the new account with domain_name.com has to be the password for your domain name mail account. Does that help?

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

So thats how I set my ISP smtp relay for outgoing emails from my PHP Nuke Site?

Raven · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:58 am

Yes.

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

It doesn't work still. From what you said, it looks like Im having outlook express check for new emails on domain_name.com and sending emails through my_isp.net. As if it were me personally sending the emails. Which is nothing near what I need. I need to set my PHP Nuke site to use my_isp.net to relay new account activation emails. Although I am probably wrong. Im very confused and desprate. Thank you for helping me Raven, I owe you.

Raven · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:42 pm

Give this a try

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MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

I went on there, still no luck. The lines displayed on there are nothing like my current one. I also noticed that the smtp.php file they were talking about had the path "net/smtp.php" and my smtp.php file is "includes/smtp.ini" on the PHP Nuke base directory. It looked like they were talking about Pear on that site. I looked at the code in my smtp.php and their smtp.php and saw nothing alike. Is there no place to enter smtp info on PHP Nuke?

Raven · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:22 am

Your php.ini file is the only place and you can't do user authentication. PEAR is a supplemental package that ships with PHP. That is the answer to your issue. You have to tweak phpNuke to use it instead of the default. If there is another anwer, I do not know it.

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

Actually, I just realized PHP.INI was set to "display_errors = off" so I switched to on and I found this error; "Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 501 syntax: Cannot contain a :, unless g_rcpt_colon true in C:\Network\Websites\united-clansonline\modules\Your_Account\index.php on line 150"

Any ideas? Thanks again Raven

Raven · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:26 am

What is line 150?

Raven · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:28 am

Also, try these links

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MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

$from = "$adminmail";

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

oops sorry wrong line... its:

mail($user_email, $subject, $message, "From: $from\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

Would it be ok for me to contact you via Yahoo Messenger? (I saw your yahoo link on your post)

Raven · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:48 am

The line is almost valid. If they are after strict rfc compliance, try this

mail($user_email, $subject, $message, "From: $from\r\nX-Mailer: PHP" . phpversion()."\r\n");

MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

Still returns error:

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 501 syntax: Cannot contain a :, unless g_rcpt_colon true in C:\Network\Websites\united-clansonline\modules\Your_Account\index.php on line 150

Raven · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:28 pm

That looks like an issue for your ISP because the syntax is correct. You might want to go here and install your own mail server and just bypass your ISP altogether

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MrAnderson · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 04, 2004 Posts: 34

I FIXED IT!!! I run a desknow mail server. After you said that my ISP was the problem I decided to set up my mail server for smtp relay. However it also requires authentication. So I contacted the maker of desknow and asked how to get it to relay smtp. They told me, I set it up... ITS WORKING. lol. Thank you for all your help and patience. Its greatly appreciated.