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php.ini mail function: Send mail through remote server with authentication

Hi,

I am looking to use a remote smtp server for all emails from our server. On the php.ini file it has the lines:

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i ;

How should I change them to use a remote smtp server with remote authenticaiton?

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hernst42

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The problem is that my code uses mail_function() at hundereds of pages and without an include. Is there a way to make a change at the php.ini in order to avoid these changes?

hernst42

if the mail function of php is used you are stuck to change that code everywhere to a stub function with an include which then uses the phpmailer class. IT is not possible via php.ini or any other config option.

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Perhaps you could write you own mail function that uses phpMailer such as mymail() that takes in essentially the same parameters as the php mail function. Then you could do a find/replace on each of you php files to replace the " mail(" with " mymail("

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Now I thought of another way. Is it possible to configure the sendmail program on the server to send through authenticated remote smtp?

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I just found this: http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/20-mail-replacement-a-better-hack.html

it seems what I am looking for but if you look down at the script it doesn't use authentication. Maybe someone knows what variables I have to add to authenticate with PEARS?