smtp problems

[russgri]

I am on cpanel22.
I am trying to configure a script to send email via smtp for email notification when someone uploads a file.

Here is the error message:

Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/hostfoxw/public_html/dailydraw/phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp:25 in /home/hostfoxw/public_html/dailydraw/phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105

What are the Variable values for the following code.

#connect to the smtp server
        $this->smtp_conn = fsockopen($host,    # the host of the server
                                     $port,    # the port to use
                                     $errno,   # error number if any
                                     $errstr,  # error message if any
                                     $tval);   # give up after ? secs
        # verify we connected properly
        if(empty($this->smtp_conn)) {
            $this->error = array("error" => "Failed to connect to server",
                                 "errno" => $errno,
                                 "errstr" => $errstr);
            if($this->do_debug >= 1) {
                echo "SMTP -> ERROR: " . $this->error["error"] .
                         ": $errstr ($errno)" . $this->CRLF;
            }
            return false;
        }

Here is class.smtp.php.txt
Thanks..

[Jonathan]

I'm not good, hell I don't know any SMTP in PHP...
But why not simply use PHP's mail() function to do this??