The other way of sending mail in php

[BlodoPKNZ]

Making myself a cms as im doing now i ran into the problem of reseller servers. These are becoming quite popular but its also a fact that a lot of them (and i mean a real lot) have the mail() function turned off (with the explanation of trying to halt sending spam, like that will help). Changing the ini settings at runtime isnt the best of ideas to me. Now im really really positive it is possible to send a data stream to a smtp server without calling the mail() function. The problem is how to do it. Also i have absolutely no idea how to format the data to be sent. Anyone got any experience on this?

[ParaSnake]

I have no idea on it,but can PEAR do this?,its a very powerful package include 2 mail functions on it,have you tried it yet?

[BlodoPKNZ]

Hmm no i havent tried PEAR yet, actually i tried to make my cms without using it. Dunno i have to learn more about it.

Meanwhile lets try and figure out the 'pure php' way. I personally have been thinking about using sockets to send a stream to the smtp server but i have no idea how should i configure the string for it not to be rejected. Anyone?

[inkblot]

i'm getting by fine building mine using mail(); but i think PEAR is going to be your best failsafe solution. i haven't read too much on PEAR yet, but i was reading through some other snipptes from a really advanced cms and it's PEAR crazy, so if pear fails i don't know what won't.

[scrowler]

another php function for mailing:
imap_mail() - ref.

pear functions:
PEAR::mail - ref.
PEAR::Mail_Mime - to decode or encode MIME messages - ref.

an all php alternative to mail() provided by scott at criticalpath dot com (php.net commentor):

<?php
function sendmail($to='', $subject='', $message='', $headers='', $extra='')
{
   $fd = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $extra", 'w');

   fputs($fd, "To: $to\n");
   fputs($fd, "Subject: $subject\n");
   fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP4\n");

   if ($headers) {
       fputs($fd, "$headers\n");
   }

   fputs($fd, "\n");
   fputs($fd, $message);
   pclose($fd);
}
?>