Posted by Michael Vilain on 04/28/07 00:20

In article <1177680745.238934.146880@s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Max <MaximGolyuk@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question related to this post:
>
> We are using 2 different Linux based servers: one for web (PHP, MySQL)
> and another for the mail (Qmail, SquirrelMail e.t.c.). Our webserver
> is co-located and mail server is installed here. For the PHP mail()
> function to be able to use the mail server, I modified php.ini for
> SMTP to pointi to the mail server' IP. Yet it still uses web server's
> sendmail as SMTP MTA.
>
> Please help

That's not how UNIX email works. AFAIK, php.ini tells php where the
local mail transport agent (MTA) is located. php uses this to spawn a
thread or perhaps even fork() a process to deliver the mail to the MTA.
There's no provision to use "remote" MTAs.

You'll have to configure the local MTA on the web server to forward the
mail to the mail server if you want mail delivered.

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