[wplug] Mail server question - not dumb ;-p

[John Strange]

Hmm...

I'm not sure but does the mail function connect to the port 25?  By
default the newer versions of redhat only listens on 127.0.0.1 by
default from the install.

I'm not sure if the mail() function in php does a socket, or just dumps
the file out to the local mail queue, but I would assume socket so that
it doesn't care what SMTP it is long as it's RFC happy.

Try connecting localhost as a test..

- John


On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:14, Scott Bourns wrote:
> Give me the weekend, and I'll try to let you know - I'm working on that
> exact thing, with almost equal experience (in case you didn't see my earlier
> post - an unlikely, but possible, coincidence).
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On 6/19/03 5:01 PM, "Russ Schneider" <russpgh at stargate.net> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I have a server, RedHat.  It's a web server.  I don't think mail was
> > ever set up on it.
> > 
> > I just tried to use the mail() function on php and I can't send any mail
> > out.
> > 
> > What do I need to do to the server so it can send mail out?  (I know
> > NOTHING about mail on a server.)
> 
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