[anandgagrawal]

Hello
Please help me out here
i have a project and need to create an automated email system that mails a user form to a predefined email address

I intend to use the mail() function of PHP for doing this but however encountered some problems in the SMTP installation...
So please tell me if i can make use of www.Hotmail.com or any other such common mail providers ..
If not then which one
Regards
Anand

[C.Ingram]

You will need to use an SMTP server that will let you relay. You will need to ask your web hosting provider or web server admininstrator for information. You cannot use Hotmail, etc... unless you are sending e-mail to one of their addresses directly.

[anandgagrawal]

Hmm...so what u are sayiin is that for experimental purposes i can use hotmail wherein i can make the sender and reciever a hotmail account.... and these changes i would have to make in the php.ini file right?? and if so then all i have to do is type the URL in the SMTP statement in the php.ini file??
Thanx a lot....help me out more if u can

[C.Ingram]

Originally posted by anandgagrawal
Hmm...so what u are sayiin is that for experimental purposes i can use hotmail wherein i can make the sender and reciever a hotmail account.... and these changes i would have to make in the php.ini file right?? and if so then all i have to do is type the URL in the SMTP statement in the php.ini file??
Thanx a lot....help me out more if u can

Not quite. You need to make the destination a Hotmail address. You do this from the script. You can set the SMTP host in php.ini or using ini_set() (or at least you should be able to).