smtp configuration for php mail

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I am sending mails from my website by using php mail function  But now it is not working and I contacted our hosting team then they told me to use smtp as they did some changes in server  I don t know how to do it  Current code  with php mail function  is as follows  can anyone help me about the changes which I have to do with this    lt  php  mail To  someone gmail com    headers        headers     From  livetv muscle-tube com n    headers     Reply-To  livetv muscle-tube com n    headers     MIME-Version  1 0 n    headers     Content-type  text html  charset iso-8859-1 n    headers     X-Mailer  php    mail Subject     Live TV key    mail Body     lt p gt Muscle-tube lt  p gt    mail  mail To   mail Subject   mail Body  headers     gt

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php s email   function hands the email over to a underlying mail transfer agent which is usually postfix on linux systems  so the preferred method on linux is to configure your postfix to use a  relayhost  which is done by a line of  relayhost   smtp example com  in  etc postfix main cf  however in the OP s scenario I somehow suspect that it s a job that his hosting team should have done

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Since some of the answers give here relate to setting up SMTP in general  and not just for  shinod particular issue where it had been working and stopped   I thought it would be helpful if I updated the answer because this is a lot simpler to do now than it used to be  -    In PHP 4 the PEAR Mail package is typically already installed  and this really simple tutorial shows you the few lines of code that you need to add to your php file http   email about com od emailprogrammingtips qt PHP Email SMTP Authentication htm  Most hosting companies list the SMTP settings that you ll need  I use JustHost  and they list theirs at https   my justhost com cgi help 26  under Outgoing Mail Server

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But now it is not working and I contacted our hosting team then they told me to use smtp   Newsflash - it was using SMTP before  They ve not provided you with the information you need to solve the problem - or you ve not relayed it accurately here   Its possible that they ve disabled the local MTA on the webserver  in which case you ll need to connect the SMTP port on a remote machine  There are lots of toolkits which will do the heavy lifting for you  Personally I like phpmailer because it adds other functionality    Certainly if they ve taken away a facility which was there before and your paying for a service then your provider should be giving you better support than that  there are also lots of programs to drop in in place of a full MTA which would do the job    C

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PHP s mail   function does not have support for SMTP  You re going to need to use something like the PEAR Mail package   Here is  a sample SMTP mail script    lt  php require once  Mail php      from    Your Name  lt email blahblah com gt     to    Their Name  lt otheremail whatever com gt     subject    Subject    body    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet  consectetur adipiscing elit        host    mailserver blahblah com    username    smtp username    password    smtp password     headers   array  From    gt   from   To    gt   to   Subject    gt   subject     smtp   Mail  factory  smtp   array   host    gt   host                                        auth    gt  true                                        username    gt   username                                        password    gt   password      mail    smtp- gt send  to   headers   body    if   PEAR  isError  mail          echo   lt p gt Error sending mail  lt br  gt      mail- gt getMessage       lt  p gt       else       echo   lt p gt Message sent  lt  p gt         gt

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Note that PHP mail settings come from your php ini file  The default looks more or less like this   mail function    For Win32 only    http   php net smtp SMTP   localhost   http   php net smtp-port smtp port   25    For Win32 only    http   php net sendmail-from  sendmail from   me example com    For Unix only   You may supply arguments as well  default   quot sendmail -t -i quot      http   php net sendmail-path  sendmail path      Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters   to the sendmail binary  These parameters will always replace the value of   the 5th parameter to mail    even in safe mode   mail force extra parameters      Add X-PHP-Originating-Script  that will include uid of the script followed by the filename mail add x header   On    Log all mail   calls including the full path of the script  line    to address and headers  mail log    By editing your php ini file you should be able to fix the problem without changing your PHP scripts  Also  you can test a connection with the telnet tool and the HELO  MAIL FROM  RCPT TO  DATA  QUIT commands if you directly connect to an SMTP server  With sendmail  you don t even need that  sendmail should know what it s doing  although in your case it probably wasn t and the sendmail settings probably needed a little help   Update  in most cases  telnet is not installed anymore because it s considered dangerous  i e  it gives you a clear text connection which is generally fine on your local network  but not so much to remote computers   Instead  we have nc which is very similar for testing things such as SMTP but doesn t really allow for remote shell connections  That being said  more and more SMTP is going to use encryption as well so the best tool to test is still sendmail

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