Re: Sendmail, I've had enough of it!

www.extremail.com Best MTA out there! Join the mailing list too, it's pretty funny at times. Yeah, with the SMTP thing, I think that because I'm using Linux, PHP defaults to Sendmail. In my php.in I've got the following... [mail function] ; For Win32 only. SMTP = localhost ; For Win32 only. sendmail_from = junk@operationenigma.net ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well. ; sendmail_path = /home/eXtremail/bin/smtpd All my mail just disappears into mid air now! Well, all mail coming from my site anyway! Any Ideas? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Emery" <remery@excel.com> To: "'Liam MacKenzie'" <phplist@operationenigma.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Sendmail, I've had enough of it! > Liam, > > I, too, am trying to set-up sendmail on my RH 7.0 Linux. I can't even get > the damned daemon to start. So, I'm going to try your eXtrememail > application. I may try smail as well, but I have to compile ti first...ugh. > > As for using SMTP under PHP, you should be able to use the mail() function: > mail("receiver","subject","message","headers"); > > where receiver is the receipien'ts email address. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Liam MacKenzie [mailto:phplist@operationenigma.com] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:19 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Sendmail, I've had enough of it! > > > ARGH!!! > > I'm seriously sick of this! I've spent days on end reading > documentation, trying settings, seeking help, and it still > won't bloody work! So I've taken the ultimate step, and > applied the trusty rm -rf command to everything that has > to do with sendmail! > > In other words, sendmail is no longer on my systems. > Screw it, causes more bad than good! > > Ok, now surprisingly enough I do have a final question > regarding PHP/Mail (And I mean final!) > > How can I get PHP to send mail through a local SMTP > server? > > I'm running Linux RedHat 7.1, latest Apache and PHP. > I have eXtremail installed locally. It's a POP3/SMTP > server. Works fine - fact. > > There's 3 configuration options in php.ini that I've been > playing with, no matter what the combination is, I don't > really see it doing anything different. > > I've read everything relevant on php.net and still can't > find anything. I'm sorry if this is a really stupid question. > > Thanks soooo much for all your help! > > Liam > >