[Xerte-dev] Re: the 1.8 trunk merge

[David Goodwin]

On 8 Mar 2012, at 17:26, Pat Lockley wrote:

> So would an ini_get find that? Is that all php mail needs?


See http://www.php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php


smtp_port, and SMTP can be changed at run time with an ini_set.

The SMTP parameters are only used on Windows though.


David.

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> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:11 PM, David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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