mail() and SMTP

[antoine]

I am trying to use the following code in order to send mail.

<?

ini_set('SMTP','smtp.somewhere.com');
mail('[e-mail]','this works','this works');

?>

where the SMTP address is that of my POP account provider. I however just get a server connection error.

Am I missing some steps? are there other things I need to do?

regards

Antoine

[dniezby]

Too many steps?

There are only several commands that I really use a lot and mail() is one of them.

I mentioned in another post that I create a lot of webforms and I do a lot with that data. One of the things that I've done an extremely large amount of work with is mail().

It looks to me like all your doing is creating a little more work for yourself.

Here is what I would do:

<?php

$myemail="[e-mail]"; /* This is the recipient of the email */
$subject="email subject" // subject of the email

mail($myemail,$subject,$message,$email_from); ?>

Not knowing the full situation that you're presented with, this will send the information to the recipient from the sender.

If you want an HTML formatted email, then you need to take some different steps but the basic steps are here.

[antoine]

Thank you very much for that, but the issue is more to do with setting up the outbound server so that I can actually do a mail.

The details are as follows:
- I am on a hosted LINUX server
- I do not have access to sendmail
- I therefore wanted to specify in the SMTP parameter of PHP.ini a outgoing SMTP which is somewhere else.
- the hoster has given me a 30 pop accounts
- I do not have access to the php.ini file but am allowed to set params dynamically through ini_set hence what I have done
- the mail() command needs to have some degee of understanding of who it is sending this from.

Does this give you a little more info?

Thanks loads

regards
Antoine