Antoine wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to get php to send an email and am completely lost. It seems
as though I had it working on an mdk box at work today, cos I got the
messages on my yahoo account, but now I am trying to set up a similar
thing at home I am getting nowhere. I have never done anything apart
from setting up pop/smtp servers in gui mail clients and once in a
networking class we sent an email via telnet.
Having done the extremely simple cl mail sending I was under the
impression that this would be simple!
I just can't work out why it is so difficult... first of all ssmtp was
blocking everything. So I uninstall and install postfix. I try to get
postfix going but get lots of abusive messages about it not liking
certain parameters (the default php ones). Now I read the ssmtp man page
and ask myself - why shouldn't this work? All I want to do is send a
simple little email - if telnet can do it then this can...
Now I reinstall ssmtp and nothing is working. From mutt, sendmail (see
below) and the php script I get the below.
tux ~ # sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hithere
sendmail: Cannot open mail:25
I don't want to do ANYTHING but have php send emails. I don't really
care about security (for the moment) and really just want it to work
without thinking about it! Can someone give me some advice?
Stick with ssmtp as you don't need a full MTA. You'll need to configure
ssmtp as it needs a relay host to actually send any email. That'll
lickly be your ISP mail server.
sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a bad test because ssmtp is not able to
deliver locally. ssmtp is realyy just a sendmail work a like binary that
can be used from the commandline.
kashani
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