general error, couldnt connect to smtp host

Nuke Soldier Joined: Oct 10, 2005 Posts: 13

i occasionally get an error saying....

Could not connect to smtp host : 10060 : A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

DEBUG MODE

Line : 112
File : smtp.php

after i post a reply to a thread

this includes the code....

if( !$socket = @fsockopen($board_config['smtp_host'], 25, $errno, $errstr, 20) )
{
message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, "Could not connect to smtp host : $errno : $errstr", "", __LINE__, __FILE__);
}

any ideas, oh im running nuke 7.8platinum fully patched

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12342

It just means it cannot connect to your SMTP server. There's really not too much you can do. Not having much experience with this, I would say avoid using SMTP if you can and use the default local mail()

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:29 pm

Evaders99 wrote:

It just means it cannot connect to your SMTP server. There's really not too much you can do. Not having much experience with this, I would say avoid using SMTP if you can and use the default local mail()

"default local mail"?

Can you elaborate? The sites I run have been migrated from a Linux host where they ran perfectly, to this POS Winblows box that's giving me nothing but trouble:

Code:

"Could not connect to smtp host : 0 : The operation completed successfully.

DEBUG MODE

Line : 112
File : smtp.php"

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12342

Your PHP must be configured to use the local mail() function
http://us3.php.net/mail

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12342

Your PHP must be configured to use the local mail() function
http://us3.php.net/mail