Solved - Problem - Sending mail

Many thanks to Dan Gibbs and JiveCat. Andrew ""Andrew Parry"" <andrewp@parrible.co.uk> wrote in message news:99l2s4$3qo$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > Hi, > > Background: > ------------- > I'm developing a web application using PHP, and want to automatically mail > users on certain events (eg. new user logging in, etc). > > My web host does not provide dial-up and SMTP services, so my mail host is > at a different domain to my web site. > > Problem: > --------- > If I use the PHP mail() function after calling ini_set("SMTP", > "my.smtp.server") and ini_set("sendmail_from", "user@my_domain"), > mail gets > sent but the From details are set to www@<web_host_domain_name> which is not > what I want. > > I've tried using sockets and sending directly to the SMTP server, but when I > do RCPT TO:<user@my_domain> the server sends back 550 <user@my_domain> > Relaying denied. > > The connection (HELO) and MAIL FROM commands are accepted by the mail host. > > I'm not a mail guru, and only have a very basic understanding of SMTP, but I > would have thought that if my mail host will process messages from my web > host, it should also process messages sent via a socket connection. > > I realise this is not a PHP problem, but someone else here has probably come > across the same thing, so it's worth a shot. :-) > > Any help very gratefully received. > > Andrew Parry > Parrible Limited > andrewp@parrible.co.uk > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >