sendmail

Tue Jun 13 17:37:51 UTC 2006

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 08:20, Jacob wrote:
>   
>> Okay, I'm clueless. I want to use sendmail in conjunction with PHP but I
>> have no idea what to do. Right now I'm on FC 5, and behind a NAT (I
>> think is what it's called?) and whenever PHP tries to send something it
>> comes back with timeout errors.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> (If its important: I'm using no-ip.com's dynamic DNS services. . . )
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jacob
>>     
>
> I do this all of the time, what package are you using? I have used phpmailer 
> with great success. Here is a code snippet that works for me:
>
> http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
>
> <?php
> require("../phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
>
> $html = "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>";
>
> $mail = new PHPMailer();
>
> $mail->IsHTML(true);
> $mail->IsSMTP();                          // telling the class to use SMTP
> $mail->Host      = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server (sendmail)
> $mail->From      = "TestMessage at yourdomain.com";
> $mail->FromName  = "Test Message";
> $mail->AddAddress("you at yourdomain.com");
> $mail->AddAddress("youtoo at yourdomain.com");
> $mail->AddCC("me at mydomain.com");
> $mail->AddCC("metoo at mydomain.com");
> $mail->Subject = "Printer Request for $System";
> $mail->Body = $html;
>
> if(!$mail->Send())
> {
>    print "<html><body>";
>    print "Message was not sent<br>";
>    print "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
>    print "</body></html>";
> }
> else
> {
>    print "<html><body><h1>Message Sent</h1></body></html>";
> }
>
>   
Actually I don't think it's a php problem, It seems to make it to 
sendmail. But sendmail is having a problem connecting to other SMTP 
servers. I keep getting returned e-mails.