No you don't want to become an ISP. You should have one. Who PROVIDES you with your "cheap fast ADSL line"? That is your ISP. Contact them and ask them for their SMTP servers.
As for Anders' solution of the open relay, this may be hard to find. I previously used an open relay one, however, good mail servers have black-lists of smtp servers that are "open" and so refuse connections from them. It's a fight against spam really Ross > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 28 August 2002 13:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] mail() I get crazy from this... > > > Hello B.A.T., > If so, I must organise. By sheer luck I got a cheap fast ADSL line, > guaranteed 115 kilobytes a second. Now, I understand, I must target to > be an ISP. I have a fixed IP-address. I have a server and PHP, MYSQL. > You tell me that other SMPT servers will not accept my e-mail unless I > am an ISP provider. > Well than, where/how can I become ISP provider? Because I want to be > independent. > with friendly greetings, > Peter van Summeren > > B.A.T. Svensson wrote: > >>Thanks for this answer. No, I do not have an ISP. I only have a raw > >>line: fast ADSL without any whatever, but guaranteed fast. > >>I do not understand your kind of english, but it seems to me from your > >>last sentence that I should give up. > > > > > > You MUST necessarily have an ISP (Internet Service provider), > > unless you are an ISP your self, which I doubt. ;) > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
