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

undbund wrote:
On Apr 14, 1:21 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
undbund wrote:
On Apr 12, 1:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
undbund wrote:
On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne" <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
it gets to the site.
Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
know what kind of answers others might need.
I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
worth the trouble.
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Twayne
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Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
connection using direct connection.
How would I put this information in php.ini
Thanks
mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
should help (and make things easier).
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Hi, Thanks guys for your help, I have used PHPmailer to send
newsletters from localhost. However the images don't show up. So I
would like to convert the html file to PDF. Do you guys know of a
really good php script that can do this?
Rather than create a PDF (which will be larger and won't display inline
on the user's mail reader), I'd suggest you figure out the problem with
them not showing up and fix that.

Not having your code to generate the html, we have no idea how to help you.



By the way, how do you make this code work?
<snip lots of code>

Connection Interrupted, The network link was interrupted while
negotiating a connection. Please try again.
Nothing in your code that I can see should cause that problem. Network
timeout, maybe?

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Well to fix the problem, I would have to ftp images to an online
server and code the html page to pull images from that online server.
I don't want to do this. I am creating an offline package that should
do everything from an offline server. Since there will only be a
localhost and not an actual domain, i won't be able to link the images
to the offline server. So the best idea would be able to attach a pdf
of the newsletter and send it.


OK, so you're doing everything from an offline server. You can put the images on the localhost, also. And you can include the images in the email - I get dozens of newsletters a day with images in the email itself.

So any good PHP free, open source scripts that can covert html to pdf?

Thanks for all your help.


Don't know of any, but then this isn't the place to ask. If you want to create pdf's with PHP, there's the fpdf package which works well.

But be prepared to lose readers.

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