> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:09:42 -0500
> From: k...@daleco.biz
> To: aj...@alumni.iu.edu
> CC: a.bovane...@gmail.com; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Mail Function Problem
>
> Alice Wei wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> You have the following php.ini params:SMTP = smtp.live.com
> >>
> >> smtp_port = 587
> >> live.com not support relay and it requires authentication.
> >
> > Is there an email account that I could try? I thought
> > most email accounts requires authentication anyway.
>
> Well, "therein lies the rub," as the Bard said (maybe).
> PHP's mail() was built on a general assumption that
> there would be a local SMTP server. It supports remote
> SMTP, but I'm not aware of any ability to do SMTP auth,
> even in the PEAR packages.
>
> You might just wanna read up on mail in general. The
> php.net/mail page lists several relevant RFC's, and
> has links to most of the PEAR mail classes, etc.
>
> You should definitely read up on live.com's email
> configuration. If they use SMTP auth, I'm not sure
> you can do this (per above). If it uses, say, "POP
> before SMTP" for authorization, you might be able to
> hack something together with the PHP IMAP functions, or
> even sockets, but you're getting into a big lotta work
> for what seems a small thing.
>
This is what I am talking about.
Two years ago when I first set up my own server with Linux and not Windows, I
never had to deal with this.
Perhaps the authentication has since then got stricter, but it should not be so
much of a heck of a deal.
I found this doc from ATT's website,
http://helpme.att.net/pdf/uverse/uverse_hsi_qsg_english.pdf, so obviously the
smtp server I provided earlier is probably not up to date.
I think I will fiddle around with the php.ini file and see what else is there.
Thanks.
Alice
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