Posted by Toby A Inkster on 11/12/42 12:00

B wrote:

> I'm a little confused how to setup the smtp mail servers in the php.ini
> file (this is where I set it up right?)

On non-Windows servers, PHP does not send mail through SMTP -- it uses the
sendmail binary.

This means you need to install the "sendmail" package, or any other mail
transfer agent that is sendmail-compatible. Indeed, sendmail is pretty
hard to configure and can very easily create big security headaches for
you, so I'd recommend use a compatible MTA instead.

I use Postfix, but that's because I need to receive mail too. If you are
sure that this server only needs to send mail, then Nullmailer might be a
better choice.

http://www.postfix.org/
http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/

I don't use Ubuntu, but I'd be willing to bet that it includes a Postfix
package, and probably a Nullmailer one too.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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