Re: mail - sendmail

> I wanted to use the full SMTP-Protocol including "MAIL FROM:" and "RCPT > TO:", and therefore I can't use mail(). Okay. > I have written a perl-script, I call from PHP, that connects to the You could have done this from PHP you know... http://php.net/fsockopen Using PHP to fire up Perl is not real efficient. Also, there are innumerable PHP SMTP scripts out there you could just steal instead of writing your own... Manuel Lemos' UppderDesign.com class object repository has one that's popular. Even does attachments for you. > SMTP-server directly and this worked fine - until a server went down, and my > ISP's-SMTP-Server told my perl-script, that the emailaddress is not routable. > If the mail had been in a mailqueue, no problem - after a few hours it would > be up again! I think there's some command you can send to SMTP just like MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO: that tells it to queue stuff instead of doing it now. I have no idea what it is that you have to send though... If you find out, tell me. I need it to. :-) -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm