Send Email with PHP

Hi,

I am testing a PHP application at the moment. The application is hosted on my machine. When a person successfully registers with the application they are supposed to get an e-mail. I was just wondering how i set it up so that the e-mail is sent from my machine. Do I have to configure my machine as a mail server, or can I use gMail or something? This is on OpenSuse 11.

/jlar

You will need an smtp server to send out emails. You can also setup a mail server like Mercury that will route emails to username@localhost

You'll need to set up the user within the Mercury admin panel.

XAMPP comes installed with PHP, MySQL, and Mercury.

Mercury is a really good mail server. There is also Pegasus Mail but that is primarily for windows.

If you want to download Mercury without having to isntall XAMPP go here (http://www.pmail.com/downloads_s3_t.htm)

i heard that gmail allows use to use their smtp server.

how does that work wiht the simple php mail() function?

You would need to use sendmail(). Using something like PHPMailer makes this simple to do.