Email sending problem

[vali_cd]

Hello

 

I have recently downloaded osCommerce, but before i can make this go Live, i have installed it on my computer at home, where i run Apache 2.0.59, PHP 5.2.0 + PECL, MySQL 5.0.27. For installing these i used WAMP5, which basically installs all of them.

 

The problem occurs when i try to create an account or when i do whatever action that implies sending an email. The error i get is: "Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in E:\www\vmcStore\catalog\includes\classes\email.php on line 520

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at E:\www\vmcStore\catalog\includes\classes\email.php:520) in E:\www\vmcStore\catalog\includes\functions\general.php on line 33"

 

I have tried to set up the smtp_port in php.ini, but could not find this in the file. What should i do in this case?

[Guest]

are you running an SMTP mail server or just using sendmail?

[vali_cd]

are you running an SMTP mail server or just using sendmail?

 

 

i don't have any smtp server installed, i am just using the sendmail

[Guest]

check your mail settings in the admin area and make sure you are set for sendmail and not smtp

[Guest]

Configuration> E-Mail Options > E-Mail Transport Method

[vali_cd]

Configuration> E-Mail Options > E-Mail Transport Method

 

i tried this, the value for transport method is "sendmail"

[Guest]

from this line:

 

Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in E:\www\vmcStore\catalog\includes\classes\email.php on line 520

 

It looks as though its trying to send mail though SMTP I would search those pages it is crying about and see if there is something in there that will lead you to a solution. Unfortunately I dont know all the ins and out of this program, I usually end up searching down problems just like that. Look in teh page its telling you and the line it states and see whats there. is it a command to sent via SMTP or something about your mail server?

 

This is the best I can do, maybe someone else may have some ideas.

Sorry!

[vali_cd]

from this line:

 

Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in E:\www\vmcStore\catalog\includes\classes\email.php on line 520

 

It looks as though its trying to send mail though SMTP I would search those pages it is crying about and see if there is something in there that will lead you to a solution. Unfortunately I dont know all the ins and out of this program, I usually end up searching down problems just like that. Look in teh page its telling you and the line it states and see whats there. is it a command to sent via SMTP or something about your mail server?

 

This is the best I can do, maybe someone else may have some ideas.

Sorry!

 

First of all i appreciate your fast answers and i am really glad that there are people here that want to help.

 

I tried to do the following:

- i set up the transfer method to smtp and installed a smtp server. after i tried this way, the smtp server could not send the message to a yahoo existing account(my account). Maybe this smtp server is not wuite good, i don't know.

 

- i left the smtp server opened and changed the email transfer method to send mail. What i sow was that it tried to access the smtp server and still got the same error, because the smtp server could not send

 

- i created a free tripod account but i could not upload the content of the oscommence archive to that account. There are some files like .htaccess and folders that i cannot create under the tripod account.

 

Could anybody tell me a free php-mysq host with ftp access where i can install oscommence and get familiarized to it before start creating my shop and put it live?