Why do you need an SMTP server? You need an SMTP client talking to
whichever SMTP server your hosting provider provides you.
e.g. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer (I only remember it because of
a security flaw published about it last week, but it's PHP so... meh.)
On 6 January 2017 at 07:34,
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:45:58 +0100
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:44:00PM +0200, David Suna wrote:
> > I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web
> > application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out
> > mail. The default seems to be to inst
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:44:00PM +0200, David Suna wrote:
> I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web
> application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out mail. The
> default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have seen comments that
> sendmail is ov
Why not Postfix?
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, 14:45 David Suna, wrote:
> I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web
> application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out mail.
> The default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have seen
> comments that sendmail
In the debian world a machine used to ship with exim4, Ubuntu Server
prefers postfix afaik but sendmail is also available through apt.
Basically there's a ton of SMTP servers out there and you'll have to
do that very hard thing: choose ;)
A lot has been written comparing them and all of them are I
I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web
application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out mail.
The default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have seen
comments that sendmail is overkill and some references to ssmtp.
What would be the recommen