How can I use mail() in windows host? have another choice?

Unfortunately, you can not use the mail() function on Windows however you can use PHP's SMTP Class to send mail out by authenticating against the local SMTP server.

For future users, on windows with PHP, you can use PHPMailer, it is extremely popular and easy. Just google it.

so if I'm ussing the Net_SMTP, how do I make the auth, what method should I use? this isn't working on windflower

I have a drupal installation on a Windows Server and have set up the smtp auth module using a gmail account. I had to also get a phpmailer from http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/ changed the directory name to phpmailer, voila! No problem sending mail.

Decided to try it from site on here and it worked as well

Just used my mail.domain.com server and email address
However could not use ssl What port is SSL on our mail servers?

Okay so after three days of trying to brush up on my PHP/CSS, i've come to realise my SMTP problems where because the mail() function isn't supported on my ASP.NET hosting.. Would I be able to swap to a Linux server, and what repercussions (if any) might that result in?

I'm using the linux plan and using mail() in my PHP code, but I'm not getting any email out of it. The function returns success, but nothing ever comes through. I tried vaious email addresses, subjects, messages ... What am I missing?

After some scratching around, the following code works for me on the ASP.NET hosting for sending email using PHP;

require_once "Mail.php";
// $from is your Arvixe account
$from = "YourNameHere <[email protected]>";
// $to is the receivers email
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Self Explaining...";

// $host where XXXX is the name of the server where your account is located
$host = "ssl://mail.XXXX.arvixe.com";
$port = "465";
// $username and $password are the uid & pwd of your account
$username = "[email protected]";
$password = "YourPWHere";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
// $tok is my prebuilt message body (Ex $tok = "First Name: .$fName."\nMiddle Initial: ".$mName;

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $tok);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}

Thanks a lot for this code! really helps.

But the Mail::factory() call fails: "Unable to find class for driver smtp".
Didn't you need to install/include/require any other PEAR classes/packages?
Did everything worked just with the above code?

Thanks heaps

Yuda

What username password shall I put in there? Is it my billing or WevSitePanel account?
Thanks!

So Where to crab that Mail.php file ? as explained by Brian Di Carlo

please can anyone guide me, where can I find "Mail.php" file as Brian Di Carlo explained

hello sir i hosted my website on shared windows hosting server.
but its mail function not work.as normally we used for linux with mail authentication. so plz help me . with an example
below is my code i used for it
require_once ("Mail.php");
// $from is your Arvixe account
$from = "jack gill <[email protected]>";
// $to is the receivers email
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Self Explaining...";

// $host where XXXX is the name of the server where your account is located
$host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$port = "465";
// $username and $password are the uid & pwd of your account
$username = "[email protected]";
$password = "password";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
// $tok is my prebuilt message body (Ex $tok = "First Name: .$fName."\nMiddle Initial: ".$mName;

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $tok);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}

thank you sirftwuu3d

what would be the port number or where can i find port number??

Hi Sir i have used the same coding but isn't working correctly
Can u please provide me the port number for this mailer

Please make video tutorial for this problem i have WordPress website on windows server and i made contact form to make people send me their enquires, and i used my gmail ( as the email that will receive the enquries from the contact form) and when i tested the contact form i got error "Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530 SMTP authentication is required. " please let us know what to do with this problem the link up that you gave it to us is not clear at all

well, if i dont know how to use Net_SMTP ? in that case What i have to do? and how do we change linux plan?

Seems like if mail() is not supported then Arvixe could provide a simple substitute (just change the mail function name in your php code). This code works fine on the provider I am migrating from.