[support] Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists.

[Jamie Holly]

On Windows installations, you need to setup PHP to connect to a SMTP 
server in php.ini. Here's what PHP says about it:

*Note*: The Windows implementation of *mail()* differs in many ways from 
the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for 
composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a 
/MTA/ is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the 
localhost or a remote machine).
Second, the custom headers like /From:/, /Cc:/, /Bcc:/ and /Date:/ are 
/not/ interpreted by the /MTA/ in the first place, but are parsed by PHP.
As such, the /to/ parameter should not be an address in the form of 
"Something <someone at example.com>". The mail command may not parse this 
properly while talking with the MTA.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Alternatively you could also use a module like SMTP, which bypasses 
PHP's mail function:

http://drupal.org/project/smtp

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 4/7/2010 6:26 AM, John Mitchell wrote:
> I get the below error when I initially set up drupal and whenever it
> tries to send an email:
>
>      * warning: 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:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
> 6.0\webapps\drupal\includes\mail.inc on line 193.
>      * Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if
> the problem persists.
>      * warning: 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:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
> 6.0\webapps\drupal\includes\mail.inc on line 193.
>      * Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if
> the problem persists.
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>    
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