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Wildhoney · 01-01-2008, 08:41 PM

Quite simply really. Probably the best way is to connect using fsockopen and then send the data using fputs/fwrite. SMTP, as it's a protocol, has commands such as: HELO TalkPHP.

You'll be able to find the RFC for the SMTP protocol in many locations, though I don't know its RFC number off hand. Even HowStuffWorks, if you go to the "How Email Works" article - that will give you a basic run down of how to send an email using SMTP via Telnet on the 3rd or 4th page in the article; if I remember rightly. Same principle applies to sending the email through a PHP script.

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Wildhoney La Vida es Sueño Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oldham Posts: 2,280 Thanks: 90	Quite simply really. Probably the best way is to connect using `fsockopen` and then send the data using `fputs`/`fwrite`. SMTP, as it's a protocol, has commands such as: HELO TalkPHP. You'll be able to find the RFC for the SMTP protocol in many locations, though I don't know its RFC number off hand. Even HowStuffWorks, if you go to the "How Email Works" article - that will give you a basic run down of how to send an email using SMTP via Telnet on the 3rd or 4th page in the article; if I remember rightly. Same principle applies to sending the email through a PHP script. __________________ The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.