Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/19/08 10:56

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> You're trying to connect to the user's MTA from your server? Good luck.
> A correctly configured server won't allow it.

It is quite clear that he is not attempting the above.

> Or, if you're going to connect from the user's machine, then they will
> have to install PHP on their machine.

Yes, this is what he is trying to do. But the user will not have to
install PHP on their machine. He stated in his original post that his
application is written in VisualBASIC, not PHP.

Although he does not explicitly state it, it's likely that it will be
distributed in compiled EXE form, so the only additional software that the
user will need to install is Windows (or a Windows replacement such as
WINE).

Where PHP comes in is that he's had problems connecting to the user's
outgoing mail server, because he can't guess the IP address. And rather
than having the user configure the outgoing server himself, which might
prove too confusing for them, he's decided that his VB app will send the
message via HTTP to a server with a known address, running PHP.

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