connecting to smtp

[rakennedy75]

I am going to attempt to connect to my SMTP server and send the mail function there. I am not fully sure exactly how to do this.

I would think you would have to connect to the port (like port 25 or something) or maybe the ip address of the server.

How would I go about doing this. I am pretty ignorant when it comes to networking.

I have been researching some of the network functions and am still not sure where to go with this.

Any help would be great, thanks.

[Xoid]

try this:

Hope it helps!

   $smtp = @fsockopen("<host>",25,$errno,$errdesc,30);

   if(!$smtp)
   {
    print "Could not connect to SMTP server";
   }
    else { 
           print "Connected to SMTP server\n"; 
           print fgets($smtp,1024);

       $helo = fputs($smtp, "helo server\n");
       print fgets($smtp,1024);

       $send = fputs($smtp, "MAIL FROM: [email][e-mail][/email]\n");
       print fgets($smtp,1024);

       $send2 = fputs($smtp, "RCPT TO: [email][e-mail][/email]\n");
       print fgets($smtp,1024);

       $send3 = fputs($smtp, "DATA\n");
       print fgets($smtp,1024);

       $test="Hello! Just testing!!";

       $send4 = fputs($smtp, "$test\n.\n");
       print fgets($smtp,1024);

       fputs($smtp,"QUIT\n");
       print fgets($smtp,1024);

       fclose($smtp);
     }

[rakennedy75]

yes, that was exactly what I was looking for. This sent the email, the only other question I would have is how would I format the email with this particular method. I know with the mail() i just specify the headers I want placed in the email. Is there any documentation on this.

Thanks a lot for your help.