[Resolved] mail() w/o SMTP?

[4rxsid]

Hi All,

I've got php 4.3.1 running on a windows 2003 advanced server with apache 2.0.52. I was wondering if there is a way to be able to use php's mail() function w/o having the server setup for SMTP/POP3 on port 25, or even setup at all?

In other words, is there some way to use mail() (with COM?) to open a port, send the email, and then close the port?

[tsinka]

Hi,

check out phpmailer.sourceforge.net

That's a feature rich (including SMTP auth) mailer class with it's own implementation of the SMTP protocol so you don't neccessarily need to set up a mail server yourself.

Thomas

[4rxsid]

thanks for the info tsinka.

i've "installed" the phpmailer script, which looks pretty robust. however, in this part of the code:

require("phpMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "localhost"; // SMTP server
$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]");

i'm thinking that "localhost" is not a valid SMTP server? again, i don't have SMTP (port 25) configured and listening on my windows 2003 server using apache 2.0.52.

is just plain old "localhost" valid for the Host? I can't seem to get this to work, no email is sent.

thanks.

[Weedpacket]

Well, if you're asking about how to send email without using SMTP at all, then it's just like asking how to browse the web without using HTTP at all. You're going to have to communicate with some SMTP server somewhere at some stage. That's how email works.

[4rxsid]

thanks for the reply weedpacket. so what your saying is that i could leverage the SMTP "services" from another server on our network? something like:

$mail->Host = "anotherServer.smtp.com";

?

[4rxsid]

yup...that's what it was. thanks again all!