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Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wagner

Reputation: 2807

Fake Sendmail on Windows won't connect to SMTP server

I'm trying to set up fake sendmail (sendmail.exe) on Windows 2008 Server so PHP (and ultimately Joomla) can send messages using my provider's SMTP server. However I keep getting the following error when using XAMPP's Simple Email Form:

Socket Error # 10061<EOL>Connection refused.

Which seems strange since I can send mail from this machine just fine using Thunderbird and the same SMTP configuration. Here are the relevant entries from sendmail.ini:

smtp_server=smtp.1und1.de
smtp_port=587
smtp_ssl=auto
auth_username=<email>
auth_password=<password>

Trying to force SSL or TLS has no effect.

sendmail's debug.log:

14.03.17 13:37:17 ** --- MESSAGE BEGIN ---
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** To: <recipient email>
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** Subject: Test
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** MIME-Version: 1.0
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** To: <recipient email>
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** From: <sender email>
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** 
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** test test
14.03.17 13:37:17 ** --- MESSAGE END ---
14.03.17 13:37:18 ** Connecting to smtp.1und1.de:587
14.03.17 13:37:18 ** Disconnected.
14.03.17 13:37:18 ** Disconnected.
14.03.17 13:37:18 ** Disconnected.
14.03.17 13:37:18 ** Socket Error # 10061<EOL>Connection refused.

Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3868

Answers (1)

happyhardik
happyhardik

Reputation: 25527

You can alternatively use gmail smtp server or can use the local mercury server.

If you want to use gmail server, you can find the instructions on the answer to the following question:

How to configure XAMPP to send mail from localhost?

And in case if you want to use the mercury server which comes with xampp, you can try the following:

http://system66.blogspot.in/2010/01/how-to-send-mail-from-localhost-with.html

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 0

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