Getting mail() and ssmtp to work together

[cozimek]

So, we're avoiding using sendmail for obvious security reasons on a highly secured FreeBSD box. However, we need to get mail out of that box to an SMTP relay server. So, we heard about ssmtp, which is a sendmail emulator.

Well, this works great from the command line, can send emails to the relay server just fine. however, we haven't been able to get it to work with the basic PHP mail() function.

Can anyone tell me if they've gotten ssmtp to work with PHP's mail() function? If so, what do we need to do to tell PHP to use it instead of sendmail?

Thanks!

[superwormy]

I'm not sure about your problem ( though I believe there are SMTP settings for mail() in php.ini ) but a better suggestion might be to just open an SMTP connection to the SMTP relay and send mail directly through it, avoiding the mail() function entirely.

The PEAR (pear.php.net) Mail class provides a very nice interface to sending SMTP email.

[cozimek]

Hi Keith,

Yeah, I'd like to do that, but the developer we're working with has his code tied to the mail function. in addition, we're running a few OSS packages that require php's mail() to work too.

Any ideas?