Hi guys
I've been developing an intranet interface for our filemaker database for a while now and we're running Apache 2.2 with php5 and mysql 4.
We often send email newsletters out - strictly to registered subscribers only - definitely not spam!!
Probably 3-5 times a week to 2000 subscribers.
Sometimes to do this I use a program called GroupMail from http://www.infacta.com which is great.
But other times I use our ISPs PHP hosting and use the phpmailer class to send them out.
The problem is I never feel very confident in our ISPs webspace (http://www.plus.net) and over the past 18 months they've been getting worse and worse.
Also we are moving our domain names gradually away from that host to another which won't tolerate that amount of outgoing email through their systems.
So what I wanted to do was set up a local SMTP server to handle the sending of the mail directly.
Then I set the SMTP = option in our php.ini file to become either localhost, or the IP of our local SMTP server.
Is this a good idea or a stupid idea?
I'd prefer to do this rather than use our hosts SMTP server, or even trying to configure our exchange server. Our exchange server is maintained by a local network supplier, and I'd like to keep this separate from Exchange.
I've found various products which all look to have different levels of configuration...
http://www.emailarms.com/products/1st_smtp.html
http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html
http://www.softstack.com/firstmailsrv.html
http://www.softstack.com/advsmtp.html
http://www.softstack.com/smtpsrvpro.html
Would these be appropriate? I'd probably go for the bottom one as it seems to have loads of options for us to play around with.
The advantage of doing it this way will be that we're in control of our own outbound mail queue, and it will just send the mail as and when it can.
Also to avoid spam, I guess I can set the server so it only works from inside our network, and also restrict the IP addresses to say the web / PHP server.
Any suggestions, comments, ideas??
Thanks
Ben
PHP mail function on windows - local smtp server??
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klarinetking
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I really don't know much about SMTP with PHP, but since you asked for ideas, here's one.
d11wtq's own Swiftmailer
I've heard that it's great and doesn't need SMTP, or even mail().
klarinetking
d11wtq's own Swiftmailer
I've heard that it's great and doesn't need SMTP, or even mail().
klarinetking