how to send mail without mail() function

[Anon]

Hello,
Because my ISP has disabled the mail() function under PHP3, I am looking for a way to do the same thing without this function.
Is there anybody who can help me ?

Many thanks
Jean-Francois

[Anon]

You can always open a socket to a willing mailserver and talk SMTP directly to it.

HELO your_name
MAIL_FROM: <sender_address>
RCPT_TO: <addressee>
DATA
email content here, any line consisting of a single dot needs to be sent as
a double dot. Content is terminated by sending a line consisting of a
single dot, thusly:
.
QUIT
(or send another message).

Note that most mail servers these days will refuse to transmit the message if neither the sender nor the recipient is part of their domain (i.e. it's relay mail) as a spam-reducing feature.

[Anon]

can u better explain yr example with a few lines of code?

[Anon]

Not tonight, sorry; 2nd all-nighter in a row trying to help a local outfit move their data (webserver, mail, etc) off some badly smoke-damaged machines (pretty gross working environment!) so I'm to tired to delve into any more detail.

Besides, the only times I've actually had to do that it's been in Perl, not PHP, and I don't know if I dare post any of that here... :-)

[Anon]

Need More Information to give U an answer...

Code please !, than I can look what to do...

Do you use it in CGI, or Form, or PhP, Java ?

[Anon]

hi,
how can i attach full header to my message and send it through smtp.
i tried this code but it not sneding mail and also not giving any error.
if i am not attcahing any header to my message then it send it but if i attached my header to message it doesn't,
please help me.

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed\n".
"Date: ".date("D, d M H:i:s Y ")."\n".

"Cc: $cc\n".
"Bcc: $bcc\n".

"Status: \n".
"X-Status:\n".
"X-Mailer: FocalMail Web Email Interface\n".
"X-Keywords:\n\n".$body.$sign.
"\n";

$fp1 = fsockopen("192.168.0.250", 25);
if(!$fp1){
echo "Error in connection";
}

$data="Subject:$Subject\r\n".$header;
fgets($fp1,1024);
$data.=$content;
fwrite($fp1,"HELO valuepay"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);

fwrite($fp1, "MAIL FROM:$from"."\r\n");
fgets($fp,1024);

fwrite($fp1, "RCPT TO:$to"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);
//$data="$content";

/fwrite($fp1,"$data \r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);/
//$data.=$data.$content;
fwrite($fp1, "DATA\r\n");
fwrite($fp1,"$data");
fgets($fp1,1024);

fwrite($fp1,".\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);

fwrite($fp1,"QUIT"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);

from anwar

[Anon]

how could i attach extra header with wrote:

hi,
how can i attach full header to my message and send it through smtp.
i tried this code but it not sneding mail and also not giving any error.
if i am not attcahing any header to my message then it send it but if i attached my header to message it doesn't,
please help me.

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed\n".
"Date: ".date("D, d M H:i:s Y ")."\n".

"Cc: $cc\n".
"Bcc: $bcc\n".

"Status: \n".
"X-Status:\n".
"X-Mailer: FocalMail Web Email Interface\n".
"X-Keywords:\n\n".$body.$sign.
"\n";

$fp1 = fsockopen("192.168.0.250", 25);
if(!$fp1){
echo "Error in connection";
}

$data="Subject:$Subject\r\n".$header;
fgets($fp1,1024);
$data.=$content;
fwrite($fp1,"HELO valuepay"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);

fwrite($fp1, "MAIL FROM:$from"."\r\n");
fgets($fp,1024);

fwrite($fp1, "RCPT TO:$to"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);
//$data="$content";

/*fwrite($fp1,"$data....

[Anon]

how could i attach extra header with wrote:

hi,
how can i attach full header to my message and send it through smtp.
i tried this code but it not sneding mail and also not giving any error.
if i am not attcahing any header to my message then it send it but if i attached my header to message it doesn't,
please help me.

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed\n".
"Date: ".date("D, d M H:i:s Y ")."\n".

"Cc: $cc\n".
"Bcc: $bcc\n".

"Status: \n".
"X-Status:\n".
"X-Mailer: FocalMail Web Email Interface\n".
"X-Keywords:\n\n".$body.$sign.
"\n";

$fp1 = fsockopen("");
if(!$fp1){
echo "Error in connection";
}

$data="Subject:$Subject\r\n".$header;
fgets($fp1,1024);
$data.=$content;
fwrite($fp1,"HELO valuepay"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);

fwrite($fp1, "MAIL FROM:$from"."\r\n");
fgets($fp,1024);

fwrite($fp1, "RCPT TO:$to"."\r\n");
fgets($fp1,1024);
//$data="$content";

/*fwrite($fp1,"$data....