php email script problem.

Hello,

I'm using a php email script, do these scripts use a port to send the email (to outlook) and what port is that.

Because there is an adress of someone, if I put that adress in the php script to tell where the input of the php form should be mailed to..it won't arrive.

It does work with another mail adress.

Thanks in advance.

I dont understnad what your saying, Correct me if i am wrong.

Well, it's clear enough I think.

you have to use the mail() function to send the email:

mail($address, $subject, $message);

PHP doesn't use a port as far is I know to send email.

Any data transferred between two computers (a server being a computer...), must be transferred using a port and a protocol.

If you are using SMTP then the default port should be 25. Bear in mind that you can change ports used on a computer system so your host may have changed this. You may wish to check with them. That is the outgoing port, where data is sent out from the server.

The incoming port depends on the computer the person recieving the email on is using. If they have port forwarding setup it could be anything. But you can't really change this yourself if they are using Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail etc as these are not on your server. If people are checking email actually on your server itself then you can choose which port your clients can use. By default, this should be 587.

The PHP mail(); function, believe it or not, uses SMTP. So again, you're looking at double-checking with your host to see if anything's been changed. By as said, the default is 25.

As a reference use: http://php.net/mail.

Originally Posted by RaZoR^ Any data transferred between two computers (a server being a computer...), must be transferred using a port and a protocol. If you are using SMTP then the default port should be 25. Bear in mind that you can change ports used on a computer system so your host may have changed this. You may wish to check with them. That is the outgoing port, where data is sent out from the server. The incoming port depends on the computer the person recieving the email on is using. If they have port forwarding setup it could be anything. But you can't really change this yourself if they are using Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail etc as these are not on your server. If people are checking email actually on your server itself then you can choose which port your clients can use. By default, this should be 587. The PHP mail(); function, believe it or not, uses SMTP. So again, you're looking at double-checking with your host to see if anything's been changed. By as said, the default is 25. As a reference use: http://php.net/mail.

That sounds about right to me...
Although writing your own would be better, no need really to know anything about the ports etc.
If you want me to make you a small email form that emails the message to a particular email address, just ask