Mail

[delerium]

Well im quite new with PHP. I'd like to send a mail but i dont have an smtp server on my computer. Id like to use a remote mail server to send an email but dont know how to do this. I would apreshiate all the help i can get =)

[codeDV]

You can set the SMTP directive in your php.ini to your desired smtp server. You can then use the mail function in PHP to send mail. Theoretically this should work.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.myserver.com
SMTP = 25 ;smtp port

However I use Win 2000 and the mail function just hangs.:mad:

[delerium]

I run under linux 🙁

[codeDV]

This is a quote from the PHP manual on the sendmail_path directive in the php.ini:

sendmail_path string
Where the sendmail program can be found, usually /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail. configure does an honest attempt of locating this one for you and set a default, but if it fails, you can set it here.

Systems not using sendmail should set this directive to the sendmail wrapper/replacement their mail system offers, if any. For example, » Qmail users can normally set it to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail or /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject.

qmail-inject does not require any option to process mail correctly.

[delerium]

ok thanx Ive managed to get it to work by installing exim and running iit thru there