Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/09/07 23:03

Jon Slaughter wrote:
> Do I need some module to send emails with php or is there something built
> into apache that does this? I want to send some email authentication emails
> but not sure if I have to have some type of email host(which I don't on my
> web server).
>
> I assume its going to be impossible to do since I have no mail server to
> handle the transactions? I don't want to use a remote server either as its
> not that big a deal.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>

If you don't have a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) on your server and don't
want to use a remote one, you can't send email. You need access to one
somewhere!

Apache is a web server - not an MTA.

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