Posted by Michael Kamp on 03/26/07 14:35

> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php
>
> If you have something specific you're dealing with, try posting
> again,

Hi Michael,

on the page you posted, it says

- "PHP must have access to the sendmail binary on your system during
compile time"

- in PHP_INI_ALL: SMTP=localhost, smtp_port=25


So if I understand this correctly, there is something like a local mail
server running on the same machine. So the mail-function does nothing
magical, but connecting to a local mail server (which seems to allow any
from-name and any from-address).

I was just wondering, how it sends the mail. So actually, it uses a
local mail server which needs to be installed.


Do you think, my considerations are correct?

Thanks,
Michael

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