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[nycphp-talk] using PHP mail function on Windows server?

Kristina Anderson ka at kacomputerconsulting.com
Thu Apr 24 12:55:09 EDT 2008


Everyone -- thanks tons for your feedback so far.  We are contacting 
the host company today to get details on what our options are and I 
will let you know what we find out!

--Kristina

> mikesz at qualityadvantages.com wrote:
> > Forgot, I was using the mail.mysite.com and the IP address for same
> > with similar results and it worked beautifully until they blocked 
the
> > SMTP port on me.
> >
> > I have had mixed results with windows sendmail clones. Fake Sendmail
> > worked sometimes but crashed a lot so I stopped using it. Pear Mail
> > works beautifully and allows you to specify authentication settings 
so
> > you can log into your external mailserver
> >   
> As I said earlier, moving away from just "mail()" is usually a good 
idea.
> 
> phpmailer used to be what I'd use, until I found swiftmailer, which 
is 
> capable, nicely designed, and nicely implemented, and nicely 
documented.
> 
> the only downside to swiftmailer might be that newer releases are 
> php5-only.  But I think that at the moment, there are separate php4 
and 
> php5 libraries available.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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