need advice: porting mail apps from sendmail to smtp

My webhost decided from one day to the next to disable sendmail, because,
they say, it was being exploited for spamming purposes. This means I have to
go back and rewrite some scripts I wrote a long time ago. (aaarrrgghh)

They are usually in the form of:
$sendIt = mail ("$toName <$toEmail>", $title, $message, $headers);

What would be the simplest way of changing the scripts to mail through an
SMTP server? What do I have to pay special attention to?

thanx,


..soma
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ps: I have socket support

"somaBoy MX" <none@nonesuch.net> schreef in bericht
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> My webhost decided from one day to the next to disable sendmail, because,
> they say, it was being exploited for spamming purposes. This means I have
to
> go back and rewrite some scripts I wrote a long time ago. (aaarrrgghh)
>
> They are usually in the form of:
> $sendIt = mail ("$toName <$toEmail>", $title, $message, $headers);
>
> What would be the simplest way of changing the scripts to mail through an
> SMTP server? What do I have to pay special attention to?
>
> thanx,
>
>
> .soma
> --

try this one worked for me!!

G


function socketmail($toArray, $subject, $message) {
// $toArray format --> array("Name1" => "address1", "Name2" => "address2",
....)

ini_set(sendmail_from, "norepley@email.nl");

$connect = fsockopen (ini_get("SMTP"), 25, $errno, $errstr, 30) or
die("Could not talk to the sendmail server!");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);

fputs($connect, "HELO {$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);

while (list($toKey, $toValue) = each($toArray)) {

fputs($connect, "MAIL FROM:norepley@email.nl\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "RCPT TO:$toValue\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "DATA\r\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);

fputs($connect, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($connect, "From: BOT-mi <norepley@email.nl\n");
fputs($connect, "To: BOT-mi lid <$toValue>\n");
fputs($connect, "X-Sender: <norepley@email.nl>\n");
fputs($connect, "Return-Path: <norepley@email.nl>\n");
fputs($connect, "Errors-To: <norepley@email.nl>\n");
fputs($connect, "X-Mailer: PHP\n");
fputs($connect, "X-Priority: 1\n");
fputs($connect, "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n");
fputs($connect, "\n");
fputs($connect, stripslashes($message)." \n");

fputs($connect, ".\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "RSET\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
}

fputs ($connect, "QUIT\n");
$rcv = fgets ($connect, 1024);
fclose($connect);
ini_restore(sendmail_from);
}

"Spam sucks" <nomail> wrote...
>
> try this one worked for me!!
>
> G

Thanks... it looks good. But what if I need to authenticate with the SMTP
server?

..soma

"somaBoy MX" <none@nonesuch.net> schreef in bericht
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>
> "Spam sucks" <nomail> wrote...
> >
> > try this one worked for me!!
> >
> > G
>
> Thanks... it looks good. But what if I need to authenticate with the SMTP
> server?
>
> .soma


eeehmn i dont know try:

http://nl.php.net/manual/nl/function.imap-open.php

meaby you can do something with that i used it to read my mail box. you
should also use it to send emails trough smtp i think

hope that helps

G

Op Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:07:41 +0200 schreef "somaBoy MX"
<none@nonesuch.net>:
>What would be the simplest way of changing the scripts to mail through an
>SMTP server? What do I have to pay special attention to?

Take a look @ http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
It's a class that can spare you a lot of time.

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