Re: sending mail from localhost to yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc

undbund wrote:
On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin <maus...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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..

Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
me some directions.

Thanks for all your help.


I haven't tried Mercury mail server; for testing locally on Windows I use ArgoSoft mail server. From the PHP end, either one should work fine. Just ensure the mail server itself is running.

Also pay VERY CLOSE attention to Micha's warnings above. They are very valid and can result in your email not being delivered to any or all of your readers.

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