RE: [PHP] Sendmail, I've had enough of it!

Go with QMAIL Lots of support (mailing lists, web-sites). Several books written on it. Easier to set-up than sendmail. Very configurable. Written by same gent that wrote ezmlm mailing list application (ezmlm handles the PHP mailing lists). goto: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html -----Original Message----- From: Anas Mughal [mailto:anasmughal@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:41 PM To: Liam MacKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Sendmail, I've had enough of it! I had suffered a little bit with sendmail myself last week. It took me some reading, and I got it working the second day. Here is a useful link: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1168/sam0002f/0002f.htm Also, check out the book titled "Essential System Administration". That should be all you need -- if you decide to setup sendmail... :) --- Liam MacKenzie <phplist@operationenigma.com> wrote: > 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 > ===== Anas Mughal anasmughal@yahoo.com anasmughal@hotmail.com Tel: 973-249-6665 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php