how to use SMTP server?

[Guest R.A.M.]

Hello,

I use Windows XP Professional and PHP5 with Apache web server. I would like

to send email from PHP5 code. I learnt that I should have SMTP server. I

downloaded and installed Free SMTP Server - this is (as I think) simple mail

server, available for free. I run it, but in Options dialog I see only:

- DNS Server: Autodetect / Specific DNS server - I choose Autodetect

- SMTP Port: Standard #25 / Specufic port - I choose Standard

I PHP5 configuration file (php.ini) I need to specify sendmail-from addess.

So I guess I need to (at least) prepare a local email address. How to do it?

Please help.

/RAM/

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: how to use SMTP server?

 

 

"R.A.M." <r_ahimsa_m@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message

news:fro6f6$98$1@news2.task.gda.pl...

> Hello,

> I use Windows XP Professional and PHP5 with Apache web server. I would

> like to send email from PHP5 code. I learnt that I should have SMTP

> server. I downloaded and installed Free SMTP Server - this is (as I think)

> simple mail server, available for free. I run it, but in Options dialog I

> see only:

> - DNS Server: Autodetect / Specific DNS server - I choose Autodetect

> - SMTP Port: Standard #25 / Specufic port - I choose Standard

> I PHP5 configuration file (php.ini) I need to specify sendmail-from

> addess. So I guess I need to (at least) prepare a local email address. How

> to do it?

> Please help.

> /RAM/

 

If your aim is to send messages to external addresses then

you do not need your own SMTP server. You simply specify

your ISP's SMTP server. Its name is smtp.poczta.onet.pl.