Re: sending mail from localhost to yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc
- From: Michael Austin <maustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:51:37 GMT
Sandy wrote:
On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund <undb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve this.
Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a mailer
(like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it. So you
have sendmail installed and:
SMTP localhost
smtp_port 25
in your php.ini
in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and sendmail
will take care of the rest
/sandy
http://myphpquiz.com/
Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me. If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO: addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to add the ssl stuff..
.
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