Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > In an effort to make emails that I send through PHP scripts not be > mistaken for spam, it seems that one thing I need to do is make sure > that the emails are sent via SMTP. > > Right now, if I check my PHP generated emails with Spamassassin, it says: > > -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP > > It's not deducting points, but I think the fact that it mentions it > indicates I might be better off using SMTP. > > Looking at phpinfo, it says this about my PHP/SMTP settings: > > sendmail_from no value no value > sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i > SMTP localhost localhost This last item is only applicable under Windows; if you are using *nix mail() will use whatever sendmail (or sendmail gateway, eg to qmail) is found when php is compiled. The fact that you have a sendmail_path sortof suggests you are probably on *nix :-) The sendmail-from is also a Windows only setting. > > I take this to mean that I don't have a default "from" address, but that > it knows where my SMTP server is. Again, SMTP server only if you are running Wndows and have an MTA, such as Mercury, installed. As far as the sender address is concerned, see the fifth argument to mail() in the docs - this is only relevant under *nix as there is the Windows sendmail-from setting. > > However, the last variable, where it's set to "localhost", is not so > clear to me. Does this mean PHP is using the SMTP server on localhost? > Does this need to be changed in order for PHP to actually send via SMTP > since it doesn't seem to be doing so now? If you are on *nix and want to send mail via SMTP, you need something like http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ It has provision to set all the sender type information, send mails with attachments, HTML mail if you wish to inflict such on others, andd more. > > Beyond that, I have some follow up questions: > > My virtual hosting service is the kind where I have two IP addresses, > and I can add as many domain names as I want to my account. Does that > mean that if I set a default email address in "sendmail_from" that it > will apply to all my domains? Is there a way to localize the setting on > a domain by domain basis? Or is this a question I need to take to my > hosting service provider? If you are going to use an SMTP class such as phpMailer, you can set this info on a per-script basis if you so desire, or have a different parent class with different info for each domain. > And last... how exactly do I set the variables? Do I have to manually > edit php.ini and then restart Apache? Is there a command I should be > running? > > Thank you for any and all advice. Cheers -- David Robley IBM: I Buy Macinstosh Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 70th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3172. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
