mail and Linux w/o sendmail

[Anon]

Trying to get the mail() function to work w/Linux - when I DON'T have sendmail installed.

Is there a way to do this?

in php.ini, I can set the "smtp" variable, but it's remarked rather clearly there that it's for "Win32". The only setting that applies to Linux is where sendmail is (and it's NOT on my system!)

I want to be able to send via my ISP!

Thanks all,

-Ben

[Anon]

Ben,

Here is something you can try:

<?php

// declare variables
$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "[e-mail]";
$replyto = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Your subject";
$body = "Your Body";

$fd = popen("/path/to/mail/program -t","w");
fputs($fd, "To: $to\n");
fputs($fd, "From: $from\n");
fputs($fd, "Reply-to: $replyto\n");
fputs($fd, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($fd, "$body\n\n");
pclose($fd);

?>

This will open a connection to your mail program -OR- the isp you're trying to use, and attempt to send the email. Change the address' accordingly, and see if you get anything. Let me know the result.

[Anon]

Nice, but I don't have "/path/to/mail/program" to fill in! I don't have it installed!

I tried replacing it with mail.myisp.net, and nothing changed. Still no mail <🙁

Is there a way to SMTP directly to, mail.isp.com, bypassing the local machine?

There's this NEAT little command-line program called "smtpclient" that does just that... but it's at the SHELL level, something I'd like to avoid, if at all possible.

-Ben

John wrote:

Ben,

Here is something you can try:

<?php

// declare variables
$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "[e-mail]";
$replyto = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Your subject";
$body = "Your Body";

$fd = popen("/path/to/mail/program -t","w");
fputs($fd, "To: $to\n");
fputs($fd, "From: $from\n");
fputs($fd, "Reply-to: $replyto\n");
fputs($fd, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($fd, "$body\n\n");
pclose($fd);

?>

This will open a connection to your mail program -OR- the isp you're trying to use, and attempt to send the email. Change the address' accordingly, and see if you get anything. Let me know the result.

[Anon]

Although I tell you by email that you cannot do this directly (i think php only support sendmail in local host), you could make a program which would talk with the smtp port of your isp :?

[Anon]

Fairly trivial, use the following code to

$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "[e-mail]";
$replyto = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Your subject";
$body = "Your Body";

$datatosend = "HELO localhost\nMAIL From: $from\nRCPT TO: $to\nDATA\n$body\n.\nQUIT\n";

$smtp_sock = fsockopen("mail.isp.com", 25);

$headers = fgets($smtp_sock, 1024);
$welcome = fgets($smtp_sock, 1024);

fputs($smtp_sock, $datatosend);

fclose($smtp_sock);

Done

Hope that helps

• Chris

[Anon]

For some reason, this script didn't work as planned.

It seems to work ok, tho, if you rem out the two fgets lines.

Thanks!

=>

-Ben