Re: Mail functions?

Am I correcting thinking that, when you use the mail() function on the hosting server, the server will automatically pick up the SMTP server (i assume a hosting server will already have the SMTP-Server value in the php.ini file, which we do not have access to). But if testing on a local server, for instance on your laptop/PC, you need to edit teh PHP.ini file so that the SMPT server value points to a valid SMTP server? Thanks Tryst