how do i use my SMTP server?

[ShawnD]

i can't just use the mail() command because my Linux didn't come with sendmail

ok so i can connect to the smtp server with fsockopen() but how do i actually enter commands into there?

[tsigo]

Lots of SMTP classes available here: http://www.phpclasses.org/search.html?words=smtp&go_search=1

Should make things considerably easier.