[Xerte-dev] Re: the 1.8 trunk merge

[David Goodwin]

On 8 Mar 2012, at 17:06, Pat Lockley wrote:

> it relies on the PHP mail function working, what requirements that has
> I don't know, but on local host I get a sendmail something.

Ah. With a Linux box php will always call a local /usr/sbin/sendmail. 

On Windows you must have an SMTP relay configured. You can set these settings through an ini_set call. I suspect most WAMP installs leave the php.ini values blank.


Where things get tricky is if you have a Linux server/vm which needs to relay through somewhere - as the mail() function will not support this - hence it's normally better to use something like Zend_Mail/SwiftMailer/etc. They also handle HTML email, character sets and attachments a lot better.

thanks,

David.


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