monkeytooth Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Are there any alternatives? Well that may be poor logic of thinking on my part. My hosting provider and many others like it have a limit on max outbound messages per hour/day sent. When the max is reached then they shut if off til the next cycle in my case on the hour every hour. I can't afford a dedicated server right now or a VPS server right now, its just not in the budget.. So what I want to do is put my own mail server together. Which that I have done before, I got the stuff I need to do it, to run it, to maintain it and all else. However from my understanding at the moment at least is despite setting a mail server up. Pointing the MX records to where they need to go and all else. if I use the mail() function. I am still going through my host's email server. So what I want to know over all is. Is there a way with the use of PHP to Port to my own 3rd party email server to use the outbound there or am I stuck where I am. I would put my own web server together and host everything that way. But I don't have the bandwidth for that. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddski Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Have you looked into PEAR::Mail() Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/#findComment-980985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeytooth Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 no, ill be completely honest. I haven't looked into anything as of yet, I am trying to find out if there is anything worth looking into. And this forum is usually my go to spot for help and info. Cause it's helped me so well over the years. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/#findComment-980988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeytooth Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 Would you know any particular place I can go to read up on that a little bit better? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/#findComment-980999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I love the pear library. Here is more information: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/docs Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/#findComment-981000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeytooth Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 Ok, I am still a bit confused about this, but I don't proclaim to be an expert either by reading up on what I have thus far. Pear::Mail is a mail server, or am I just mis-understanding this a bit? Also, is Pear something I can port a script or something to/from, from my web host where my web site resides. To an 3rd party mail server? Unless Pear is the Mailserver like I am assuming right now, then is it possible to port into it from a 3rd party web server? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/#findComment-981018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddski Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 PEAR::Mail is simply another way to send emails.. It connects TO a Mail server to send emails from. PEAR is basically a bunch of PHP classes which you can use in your code... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/185783-php-mail-alternatives/#findComment-981019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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