SMTP and Unix.

[mshen]

I try to develop a application with Unix.do you think I can use SMTP server to send Email.

I check php.ini.it seem SMTP only work for windows.

Thanks

[Sxooter]

I just call sendmail by hand and it works great.

man sendmail to see the syntax you need to use. It's pretty easy.

[mshen]

I already have a SMTP,do you think I can use it in Unix.

Thanks

[Sxooter]

Which SMTP? Sendmail is one Mail transfer agent, so I'm not sure what you're asking.

[mshen]

a Windows SMTP server no unix sendmail.I have the SMTP address like xxx.xxx.xxx.xx

Thanks

[Sxooter]

Ahhhh. in this case you just tell sendmail to send it's mail to the Windows SMTP server and it should work fine. Sendmail is both an MTA and an SMTP server, by the way, in this instance we'd just be using it as an MTA.

[frymaster]

smtp is the simple mail transfer protocol and is provided by all mta's (notably sendmail and qmail on *nix)

from the command line do:

mail -s "this is the subject" [e-mail] < /path/to/textfile

this will send textfile to [e-mail] with the subject "this is the subject"

to see what happens when you run this command, look at your mail log. it is almost always in /var/log/maillog. view it with tail, ie:

tail /var/log/maillog