SendMail

[bradmasterx]

Hello, i would like to be able to set-up my computer to send mail, how would i do this. i want to use my aol account. how would i config my php.ini file to send these emails from my site? also do i need a client program to send the emials?

thanks in advanced 😛

[NogDog]

You could use phpMailer with the SMTP option, having it connect to your AOL account with the same user/password settings you would use with Outlook, Thunderbird, or any other similar mail tool. This page includes an example of using PHPMailer with SMTP that requires authorization.

[eowl]

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[bradmasterx]

i want it so i can do the mail() function because i have made my site already with that function.

[NogDog]

To the best of my (limited) knowledge, the mail() function does not provide any method to send via SMTP with user authentication, thus the need for an alternative which does. (Unless you can find an alternative sendmail wrapper of some sort to install which you can independently configure to connect to you AOL email account, perhaps?)

[jmclea]

I'm not sure if this would work for you, or if AOL would allow this, but you can try setting up a local SMTP server on your computer that relays to the AOL SMTP server. IIS has a "Smart Host" function in it that does this, but it doesn't allow you to enter authentication info.

[bradgrafelman]

There are many freeware SMTP servers out there; here is a list of several. Just Google "smtp download" or "smtp freeware".