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[nycphp-talk] PHP Mail problem on Windows Server

Jeff Siegel jsiegel1 at optonline.net
Tue Feb 3 22:21:14 EST 2004


Turned out that MailEnable was not set to accept mail from the web app. 
Once it was set to accept mail generated by IP address, specifically 
127.0.0.1, the problem was solved.

Jeff

K. Marcus Gulver wrote:

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>  2004-02-03, 13:45:00 you wrote: 
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>>>>>I'm getting the following error message -
>>>>>"Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 503 This mail server requires 
>>>>>authentication." - using the mail function with PHP on Windows. Since 
>>>>>I've been spoiled and have been using only Linux (or FreeBSD) ... 
>>>>>I've got no clue what needs to be done on Windows server.
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> I'm not sure about the error code message numbers. But it sounds like that
> the server wishes to establish that the sender is authorized to send by
> forcing you to check for new mail first before sending. I had this problem
> once. Did not find any solution (maybe beacuse I use the Chinese program
> Foxmail) Nevertheless a quick fix was just changing the SMTP server to
> another one not requiring this. Hope this helps.
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> This feauture is a anti-SPAM configuration apperently.
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> Marcus
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