2009/2/6 Thodoris <tgol@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > 2009/2/5 Thodoris <tgol@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > I think that the OP mentioned the word fedora somewhere above... > > > > Oh sorry, I'm so stupid... Anyways, if you want to send mail to large > providers you'll need to use a relay. I found a nice tutorial about > how to set it up with google apps. > It was for Ubuntu but you just have to install msmtp and follow the other > steps. > Here it is: http://nanotux.com/blog/the-ultimate-server/4/#l-mail > I did it on my little gentoo server here at home and it works great. > > > > > > Well if I am not getting what you say in the wrong way I should say that you > don't need to use a relay because you don't need a mail server at all. > The point is that PHP can send mail with the mail() function using a local > mail client like sendmail's client part or something coded in pure PHP. > > Keep in mind that you don't need to have a mail server in your PC in order > to send mail. Similarly PHP doesn't need to have a local mail server in > order to send mail. > > So you don't need extra mail configuration assuming of course that you don't > need to do something extreme. You just use mail() and the mail gets sent. > > -- > Thodoris Of course he can send mails this way, but they won't be accepted by many mail providers because of their anti-spam measurments. They bounce mails that come from dynamic ip ranges like his home server. I just wanted to help him avoid this because you won't see the reason until you look at the syslog. -- Currently developing a browsergame... http://www.p-game.de Trade - Expand - Fight Follow me at twitter! http://twitter.com/moortier -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
