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Thank you very much. Today, strange enough. All the php mail() went through with the original free SMTP server. I did not change anything, except once in a while Mcafee did some automatic upgrades.The only exception is in <?php$to="someone@yahoo.com";$subject=$_REQUEST["subject"];$email=$_REQUEST["email"];$message=$_REQUEST["message"];mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $email");echo "Mail sent";?>$to and $email cannot be exactly the same email address, like both are someone@yahoo.com. If both are the same, the mail still went through without error, just I cannot receive the self-mailed mail in my yahoo account. If one is a@yahoo.com, another is b@yahoo.com or b@comcast.net, the mail would go through, and I could get all the mails in my yahoo account.

The technical support at Softstack asked me to try their First SMTP Server. I tried but still got the same error. I open the cmd window,typed "telnet localhost 25", it came out: "220 Welcome to ESMTP Server".typed "mail from sb@yahoo.com, came out "250 Ok"typed "rcpt to sb@yahoo.com, came out "250 Ok"typed "data", came out "354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself"typed "subject: test email This is just a test." came out "250 Ok"typed "quit", came out "221 Closing transmission channel Connection to host lost"The mail() did work previously after I installed SMTP server, now it does not work. Between then and now, I upgraded the McaFee Security Center, upgrade IE from 6 to 7 beta. But I am now only using firefox browser since it's faster. I doubt the problem might come from Mcafee. But how to resolve it? Thank you very much.

I tried your suggestion, still failed with the same error message. The mail() did work after I installed SMTP free server. Now it does not work. I forgot what I have done between then and now. I just sent an email reporting my problem to the softstack link you gave me. Hope the problem would be resolved soon.Thank you very much.

Thanks.In cmd, after I typed "telnet localhost 25", I got "220 localhost". So the computer accepts connection at port 25. In php.ini, I searched SMTP, and found the line as "SMTP = localhost".

I used the following code to get email from an html form.<?php$to="someone@yahoo.com";$subject=$_REQUEST["subject"];$email=$_REQUEST["email"];$message=$_REQUEST["message"];mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $email");echo "Mail sent";?>It came out the error:Warning: mail() [function.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 E:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\My Web Pages\phpfile.php on line 160I came across this problem before. Then I downloaded a free SMTP server from www.softstack.com, and the mail went through. Now, I came up with the same problem again. I turned on the free SMTP, it still did not work. I don't have a commercial web server, all my files are under localhost. I downloaded the php, apache, and mysql from wamp5. So do I need to check some .ini file for this? Or is it better to use asp for sending email?Thank you very much.

Thanks.I can see this image. But I cannot see all other examples. For the last example flash. I can see both flashes on IE, but cannot on firefox.

Thanks.On page: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_object.aspI can only display the picture after "click here to try it yourself", and cannot dispaly all the others.

I like to use firefox browser, since it's faster. But I cannot see the multimedia results in firefox browser. It works properly on IE. Is there any way to resolve it so that I can see multimedia (sound and video) results also in firefox browser?Any input is GREATLY appreciated.

The %20 does not work. Yes. If I put the image file to the same directory as my html file under my virtual host, the image is shown properly. Now I am clear!!! When I opened the html file through open->file->browse, I can see the image even if it's just <img src="E:\directory\file.html">. That's why I always saw the picture when I first learned html. Then I began to learn php. I installed php, apache, mysql on my machine. Today, I wanted to incorporate my previous html file with php to make it more dynamic. But this time, I opened the file through http:\\localhost\file.html, but I could not see the image.So when I opened the http:\\localhost\file.html, I actually accessed it through online, although only I can access the file. So in this way, I cannot use <img src="E:\directory\file.html">. Instead, I should upload the file to the directory under my virtual host.Thank you so much for your help.

Thanks. I tried your suggestion, still no image shown. Yes, I open the file from my computer http://localhost/file.html

Thank you very much.With file:\\\ or without still cannot make the image show up on the browser. I checked on both firefox 1.5.0.6 broswer and IE 7.0.5450.4. Usually I only use firefox since it's faster.

Thank you very much for all the above replies. Now, I used the <img src="file:///E:/My Documents/My Pictures/2006_04_21/IMG_1575.JPG" width="300" height="200" />the picture is still not shown.The page is not online, it's only on my local computer.

The image file IMG_1575.jpg is shown properly if I include it using <img src="IMG_1575.jpg" width="300 height="200" />. But if I include it with <img src="E:\My Documents\My Pictures\IMG_1575.JPG" width="300" height="200" />, the image is not shown in the browser. It's blank. How to resolve this? How to include a file on my local computer with direct path?Any input is GREATLY appreciated.