Email Setup for a windows xp pro box?

[mikesz]

Hello,

I set up the Emailer to use SMTP, sent a test email and got the following:

"An error occured while sending email.

The message was not sent."

Not very useful or informative, I am afraid.

Anyone have a setup for using smtp on a windows box?

thanks in advance, mikesz

[David]

Are you running this on a webserver, or on your local box? I assume you are running phpLD on the webserver, and connecting via smtp from your windows xp computer.

I personally have not used SMTP but hopefully others can tell you more.

[mikesz]

I have a test webserver running Apache on an XP box, my mailserver is on a remote linux box so I am using smtp because I don't have sendmail on the XP box.

I am able to run the test program for phpmail successfully from my xp to the mail server but when I configure the PLD the same way, I get the dumb error message. At lease when I ran the test program it told me what the real error message was when it failed so I was able to correct it so it worked. I have not has any success getting the PLD to output real error messages.

Hope someone can make some sense out of this, I really like what I see so far, I just found this site yesterday...

update:

the mail function works, plug and play on the linux server, so I am guessing that something is amiss in the windows/smtp setup, though I can use php mail fine using smtp on the same system and the phpmail smtp test program works also on the same box but the PLD does not.