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 -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html