[thelist] SMTP Postcast

Andrew Maynes andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk
Tue Sep 3 06:50:00 CDT 2002


Rob I have just installed postcast which is only a smtp server and is working a
ok (very straightforward, in fact it was so easy i am not impressed!) should I
have used a smtp/pop3 server?  or will this do the job? I have changed the ini
setiings but still getting the same error

Could not connect to smtp host : 9 : Bad file descriptor

Andrew

> So the settings in php.ini are irrelevant for Apache PHP running locally
unless I want to connect to my > isp, makes sense thank you

The settings are relevant in that you need to specify a valid smtp server in
order to be able to send mail via php, whether this is locally, on your
network or an isp's makes no odds.  Your script will fall over until it has
a valid SMTP server to connect to.

>Do you think it's worth installing a smtp server?

Depends on what connection you have really, if you're on some form of always
on you might as well use your ISP's smtp server.  If on the other hand
you're on dialup it might be worth running a combined smtp/pop3 server.
Equally the other issue is how confident would you be in setting up and
running an smtp server ?

HTH

Rob


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