Re: Sending mail without using mai() ?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:46:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Sending mail without using mai() ? | ||
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Jaime Iniesta Aleman wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to send SMTP mail if the server where are my pages
> hosted forbids the use of the mail() function ? I mean, by opening a
> sockets connection to an external SMTP server and writing the commands
> there directly...
Yes, *IF*:
The ISP was not smart enough to realize this and didn't disable the
http://php.net/fsockopen function
Your SMTP server will accept connections from your web-server.
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