Using different mail server

[mhalloran]

I want to use a different mail server to send my emails in PHP. There's this setting....

ini_set("SMTP","mail.someserver.com");

but that only works in windows for some reason. Has anyone done this in Linux or does anyone have some suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

[Installer]

If your server has PEAR installed you can try using its Mail package.

require_once 'Mail.php';
$params = array('host'     => 'mail.example.com',
                'port'     => '25'
                'auth'     => true,
                'username' => 'user',
                'password' => 'password');
$recipient = '[e-mail]'
$headers = array('From'       => '[e-mail]',
                 'To'         => $recipient,
                 'Subject'    => 'Test message',
                 'Message-ID' => '<' . uniqid('') . $params['host'] . '>');
$body = 'Message text';

$mail_object =& Mail::factory('smtp', $params);
if (!$mail_object->send($recipient, $headers, $body)) {
    echo 'Failed';
} else {
    echo 'Succeeded';
}

[mhalloran]

Thanks, I'll look into PEAR now. There's no way to do this without PEAR in Linux. I'm surprised there's so little talk about this.

Thanks for the response.