help with the mail function

Dear all i m trying to simply send an email when a user registers, and
i used the mail function and i got the error "Warning: mail(): SMTP
server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for m@hotmail.com in
C:\Extrn\dx\mail.php on line 2" and i have no clue what is wrong??!!!

can anyone help please


thank you

Meena wrote:
> Dear all i m trying to simply send an email when a user registers, and
> i used the mail function and i got the error "Warning: mail(): SMTP
> server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for m@hotmail.com in
> C:\Extrn\dx\mail.php on line 2" and i have no clue what is wrong??!!!
>
> can anyone help please
>
>
> thank you
>

Sounds like your email server is configured correctly - not allowing
just anyone to forward email outside of the domain (prevents it from
being used as a spam relay).

Generally this means you will need some kind of authentication. You'll
have to find out from your host just what is required.

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Meena wrote:
> Dear all i m trying to simply send an email when a user registers, and
> i used the mail function and i got the error "Warning: mail(): SMTP
> server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for m@hotmail.com in
> C:\Extrn\dx\mail.php on line 2" and i have no clue what is wrong??!!!

Your SMTP server may not be configured to relay. Are you using
Mercury? or any other mail servers?

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