RE: Re: sending mail -- nullmailer

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I don't want to setup and maintain a new mail server (sendmail) when we
already have an smtp server set up and maintained by our sys admin. Am I
crazy here? 

Can anybody recommend a good sendmail wrapper I can use that will work with
PHP and any other apps that use sendmail? Thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:59 PM
To: Josh Howe
Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: sending mail -- nullmailer

Hello,

On 10/08/2004 01:35 PM, Josh Howe wrote:
> Ok, so I came across nullmailer, which seems to do exactly what I want -
> forward mail to an existing smtp server. But it isn't working. I'm using
the
> mail() php function, and the mails aren't arriving. The same code works
fine
> on a windows machine pointing to the same smtp server. Does anybody have
any
> experience configuring nullmailer? How do I tell linux to use nullmailer
as
> the default MTA? Thanks!! 

I don't know why do you want to replace your Linux installation MTA. 
Usually is sendmail or compatible and can be configured to relay 
messages to a SMTP server instead of deliverying them directly.

Under Linux/Unix PHP just hands the message to the sendmail program. It 
would not make much sense to relay messages a SMTP server when sendmail 
can be more efficient by sending them directly to the SMTP of the 
recipient users, unless you are trying to send messages from a server 
that is blacklisted and the world is not accepting messages from it or 
because of some other blocking reason.

Anyway, if you really want to relay messages to a SMTP server under 
Linux/Unix, the mail function will not do that. Instead you may want to 
try this class that comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail(). It 
emulates the mail() function and the purpose of its arguments except 
that it can relay the messages a SMTP server of choice.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

You also need this:

http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass


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