Posted by Manuel Lemos on 09/18/05 21:50

Hello,

on 09/14/2005 06:04 PM tencip said the following:
> So, we're avoiding using sendmail for obvious security reasons on a
> highly secured FreeBSD box. However, we need to get mail out of that
> box to an SMTP relay server. So, we heard about ssmtp, which is a
> sendmail emulator.

It sounds a bit paronoid, but...


> Well, this works great from the command line, can send emails to the
> relay server just fine. however, we haven't been able to get it to
> work with the basic PHP mail() function.
>
> Can anyone tell me if they've gotten ssmtp to work with PHP's mail()
> function?

You may want to try this class that comes with a wrapper function named
smtp_mail() that emulates the mail() function but lets you send messages
either relaying to another SMTP server, or send directly to the
destination SMTP server.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

You also need this:

http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass

If you need to authenticate to relay, you also need this:

http://www.phpclasses.org/sasl


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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