By olad234 on

Can anyone tell me how to setup email on drupal

Error message --------- ( 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 C:\xampp\htdocs\silverbirdnews\modules\user.module on line 430. )

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styro’s picture

styro commented

you need to have a mail server running on port 25 on localhost for your current config to work.

either install a mail server locally (I wouldn't know what to recommend for Windows though)

or

edit your php.ini file to use your ISPs (or some other) mail server.

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argosy1’s picture

argosy1 commented

I researched the documentation at php.net on how to setup an external ISP server in the php.ini file, however, there don't seem to be parameters for setting the credentials (uid/pwd) for an ISP provided SMTP service that requires authentication.

HansBKK’s picture

HansBKK commented

Mercury's one I've been using since it was a Novell module (1989?), then DOS, then Win3.1 . . .

Not open source but free, (I think they charge for proper docs, but I've never needed them)

XAMPP (highly recommended) includes it in the package.