Sending PHP email via external SMTP server
I recently installed a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) setup on my copy of Windows Vista and set up an installation of Bamboo Invoice. I created an invoice to send to a client but then realised there was no PHP mail configuration. I couldn’t be bothered (and am not very expert) setting up a mail server on my computer, but it occurred to me that I could just reference the SMTP server provided by my ISP that I use for my usual email sending.
In order to do this, open up php.ini and find the line that has [mail function]. Then change the value of ‘SMTP’ to the mail server (e.g. mail.example.com). You will also want to change the value of ’sendmail_from’ to your details (e.g. Your Name
Tags: PHP, Server Configuration