Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve this.
Thanks
On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund
> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve this.
Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a mailer
(like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it. So you
have sendmail installed and:
SMTP localhost
smtp_port 25
in your php.ini
in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and sendmail
will take care of the rest
/sandy
http://myphpquiz.com/
Sandy wrote:
> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund
>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve this.
>
> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a mailer
> (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it. So you
> have sendmail installed and:
>
> SMTP localhost
> smtp_port 25
>
> in your php.ini
>
> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and sendmail
> will take care of the rest
>
> /sandy
> http://myphpquiz.com/
Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or dialup
it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP mail
servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a spammer
and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as to not
allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T recently
instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me. If you use
your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO: addresses, you
must register as valid address coming from your ISP username/pwd also
requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will most likely need to
locate php/sasl to use from your server.
A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
add the ssl stuff..
On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
> Sandy wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund
> >> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> >> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
> >> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve this.
>
> > Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a mailer
> > (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it. So you
> > have sendmail installed and:
>
> > SMTP localhost
> > smtp_port 25
>
> > in your php.ini
>
> > in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and sendmail
> > will take care of the rest
>
> > /sandy
> >http://myphpquiz.com/
>
> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or dialup
> it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP mail
> servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a spammer
> and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as to not
> allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T recently
> instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me. If you use
> your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO: addresses, you
> must register as valid address coming from your ISP username/pwd also
> requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will most likely need to
> locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>
> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
> add the ssl stuff..
Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
me some directions.
Thanks for all your help.
undbund wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
>> Sandy wrote:
>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund
>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve this.
>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a mailer
>>> (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it. So you
>>> have sendmail installed and:
>>> SMTP localhost
>>> smtp_port 25
>>> in your php.ini
>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and sendmail
>>> will take care of the rest
>>> /sandy
>>> http://myphpquiz.com/
>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or dialup
>> it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP mail
>> servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a spammer
>> and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as to not
>> allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T recently
>> instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me. If you use
>> your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO: addresses, you
>> must register as valid address coming from your ISP username/pwd also
>> requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will most likely need to
>> locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>>
>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
>> add the ssl stuff..
>
> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
> me some directions.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
I haven't tried Mercury mail server; for testing locally on Windows I
use ArgoSoft mail server. From the PHP end, either one should work
fine. Just ensure the mail server itself is running.
Also pay VERY CLOSE attention to Micha's warnings above. They are very
valid and can result in your email not being delivered to any or all of
your readers.
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JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
>> Sandy wrote:
>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund
>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
>>>> this.
>>
>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
>>
>>> SMTP localhost
>>> smtp_port 25
>>
>>> in your php.ini
>>
>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
>>
>>> /sandy
>>> http://myphpquiz.com/
>>
>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>>
>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
>> add the ssl stuff..
>
> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
> me some directions.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
it gets to the site.
Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
know what kind of answers others might need.
I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
worth the trouble.
--
Regards,
Twayne
Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacement
www.openoffice.org
On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
> > On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
> >> Sandy wrote:
> >>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
> >>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> >>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
> >>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
> >>>> this.
>
> >>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
> >>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
> >>> So you have sendmail installed and:
>
> >>> SMTP localhost
> >>> smtp_port 25
>
> >>> in your php.ini
>
> >>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
> >>> sendmail will take care of the rest
>
> >>> /sandy
> >>>http://myphpquiz.com/
>
> >> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
> >> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
> >> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
> >> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
> >> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
> >> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
> >> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
> >> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
> >> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
> >> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
> >> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>
> >> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
> >> add the ssl stuff..
>
> > Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
> > run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
> > found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
> > Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
> > localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
> > you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
> > me some directions.
>
> > Thanks for all your help.
>
> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
> it gets to the site.
> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
> know what kind of answers others might need.
> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
> worth the trouble.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Twayne
>
> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
connection using direct connection.
How would I put this information in php.ini
Thanks
undbund wrote:
> On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
>>> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
>>>> Sandy wrote:
>>>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
>>>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
>>>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
>>>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
>>>>>> this.
>>>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
>>>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
>>>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
>>>>> SMTP localhost
>>>>> smtp_port 25
>>>>> in your php.ini
>>>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
>>>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
>>>>> /sandy
>>>>> http://myphpquiz.com/
>>>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
>>>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
>>>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
>>>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
>>>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
>>>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
>>>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
>>>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
>>>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
>>>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
>>>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>>>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
>>>> add the ssl stuff..
>>> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
>>> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
>>> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
>>> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
>>> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
>>> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
>>> me some directions.
>>> Thanks for all your help.
>> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
>> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
>> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
>> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
>> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
>> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
>> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
>> it gets to the site.
>> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
>> know what kind of answers others might need.
>> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
>> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
>> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
>> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
>> worth the trouble.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Twayne
>>
>> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
>> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
>
> Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
> local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
> But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
>
> For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
> connection using direct connection.
> How would I put this information in php.ini
>
> Thanks
>
mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
should help (and make things easier).
--
==================
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
==================
On Apr 12, 1:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle
> undbund wrote:
> > On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
> >>> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
> >>>> Sandy wrote:
> >>>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
> >>>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> >>>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
> >>>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
> >>>>>> this.
> >>>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
> >>>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
> >>>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
> >>>>> SMTP localhost
> >>>>> smtp_port 25
> >>>>> in your php.ini
> >>>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
> >>>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
> >>>>> /sandy
> >>>>>http://myphpquiz.com/
> >>>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
> >>>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
> >>>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
> >>>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
> >>>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
> >>>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
> >>>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
> >>>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
> >>>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
> >>>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
> >>>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
> >>>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
> >>>> add the ssl stuff..
> >>> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
> >>> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
> >>> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
> >>> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
> >>> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
> >>> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
> >>> me some directions.
> >>> Thanks for all your help.
> >> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
> >> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
> >> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
> >> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
> >> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
> >> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
> >> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
> >> it gets to the site.
> >> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
> >> know what kind of answers others might need.
> >> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
> >> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
> >> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
> >> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
> >> worth the trouble.
>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
>
> >> Twayne
>
> >> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
> >> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
>
> > Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
> > local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
> > But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
>
> > For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
> > connection using direct connection.
> > How would I put this information in php.ini
>
> > Thanks
>
> mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
> should help (and make things easier).
>
> --
> ==================
> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================
Hi, Thanks guys for your help, I have used PHPmailer to send
newsletters from localhost. However the images don't show up. So I
would like to convert the html file to PDF. Do you guys know of a
really good php script that can do this?
By the way, how do you make this code work?
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
/* open new PDF file; insert a file name to create the PDF on disk
*/
if ($p->begin_document("", "") == 0) {
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
}
$p->set_info("Creator", "hello.php");
$p->set_info("Author", "Rainer Schaaf");
$p->set_info("Title", "Hello world (PHP)!");
$p->begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");
$font = $p->load_font("Helvetica-Bold", "winansi", "");
$p->setfont($font, 24.0);
$p->set_text_pos(50, 700);
$p->show("Hello world!");
$p->continue_text("(says PHP)");
$p->end_page_ext("");
$p->end_document("");
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf");
print $buf;
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
die("PDFlib exception occurred in hello sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
}
catch (Exception $e) {
die($e);
}
$p = 0;
?>
I get the following error:
Connection Interrupted, The network link was interrupted while
negotiating a connection. Please try again.
undbund wrote:
> On Apr 12, 1:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle
>> undbund wrote:
>>> On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
>>>>> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
>>>>>> Sandy wrote:
>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
>>>>>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
>>>>>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
>>>>>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
>>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
>>>>>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
>>>>>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
>>>>>>> SMTP localhost
>>>>>>> smtp_port 25
>>>>>>> in your php.ini
>>>>>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
>>>>>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
>>>>>>> /sandy
>>>>>>> http://myphpquiz.com/
>>>>>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
>>>>>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
>>>>>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
>>>>>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
>>>>>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
>>>>>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
>>>>>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
>>>>>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
>>>>>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
>>>>>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
>>>>>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>>>>>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
>>>>>> add the ssl stuff..
>>>>> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
>>>>> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
>>>>> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
>>>>> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
>>>>> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
>>>>> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
>>>>> me some directions.
>>>>> Thanks for all your help.
>>>> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
>>>> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
>>>> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
>>>> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
>>>> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
>>>> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
>>>> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
>>>> it gets to the site.
>>>> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
>>>> know what kind of answers others might need.
>>>> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
>>>> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
>>>> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
>>>> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
>>>> worth the trouble.
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Twayne
>>>> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
>>>> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
>>> Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
>>> local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
>>> But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
>>> For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
>>> connection using direct connection.
>>> How would I put this information in php.ini
>>> Thanks
>> mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
>> should help (and make things easier).
>>
>> --
>> ==================
>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
>> ==================
>
> Hi, Thanks guys for your help, I have used PHPmailer to send
> newsletters from localhost. However the images don't show up. So I
> would like to convert the html file to PDF. Do you guys know of a
> really good php script that can do this?
>
Rather than create a PDF (which will be larger and won't display inline
on the user's mail reader), I'd suggest you figure out the problem with
them not showing up and fix that.
Not having your code to generate the html, we have no idea how to help you.
> By the way, how do you make this code work?
>
>
> Connection Interrupted, The network link was interrupted while
> negotiating a connection. Please try again.
>
Nothing in your code that I can see should cause that problem. Network
timeout, maybe?
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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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On Apr 14, 1:21 am, Jerry Stuckle
> undbund wrote:
> > On Apr 12, 1:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle
> >> undbund wrote:
> >>> On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
> >>>>> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
> >>>>>> Sandy wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
> >>>>>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> >>>>>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
> >>>>>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
> >>>>>>>> this.
> >>>>>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
> >>>>>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
> >>>>>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
> >>>>>>> SMTP localhost
> >>>>>>> smtp_port 25
> >>>>>>> in your php.ini
> >>>>>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
> >>>>>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
> >>>>>>> /sandy
> >>>>>>>http://myphpquiz.com/
> >>>>>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
> >>>>>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
> >>>>>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
> >>>>>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
> >>>>>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
> >>>>>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
> >>>>>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
> >>>>>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
> >>>>>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
> >>>>>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
> >>>>>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
> >>>>>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
> >>>>>> add the ssl stuff..
> >>>>> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
> >>>>> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
> >>>>> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
> >>>>> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
> >>>>> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
> >>>>> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
> >>>>> me some directions.
> >>>>> Thanks for all your help.
> >>>> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
> >>>> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
> >>>> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
> >>>> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
> >>>> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
> >>>> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
> >>>> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
> >>>> it gets to the site.
> >>>> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
> >>>> know what kind of answers others might need.
> >>>> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
> >>>> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
> >>>> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
> >>>> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
> >>>> worth the trouble.
> >>>> --
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Twayne
> >>>> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
> >>>> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
> >>> Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
> >>> local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
> >>> But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
> >>> For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
> >>> connection using direct connection.
> >>> How would I put this information in php.ini
> >>> Thanks
> >> mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
> >> should help (and make things easier).
>
> >> --
> >> ==================
> >> Remove the "x" from my email address
> >> Jerry Stuckle
> >> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> >> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> >> ==================
>
> > Hi, Thanks guys for your help, I have used PHPmailer to send
> > newsletters from localhost. However the images don't show up. So I
> > would like to convert the html file to PDF. Do you guys know of a
> > really good php script that can do this?
>
> Rather than create a PDF (which will be larger and won't display inline
> on the user's mail reader), I'd suggest you figure out the problem with
> them not showing up and fix that.
>
> Not having your code to generate the html, we have no idea how to help you.
>
>
>
> > By the way, how do you make this code work?
>
>
>
> > Connection Interrupted, The network link was interrupted while
> > negotiating a connection. Please try again.
>
> Nothing in your code that I can see should cause that problem. Network
> timeout, maybe?
>
> --
> ==================
> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================
Well to fix the problem, I would have to ftp images to an online
server and code the html page to pull images from that online server.
I don't want to do this. I am creating an offline package that should
do everything from an offline server. Since there will only be a
localhost and not an actual domain, i won't be able to link the images
to the offline server. So the best idea would be able to attach a pdf
of the newsletter and send it.
So any good PHP free, open source scripts that can covert html to pdf?
Thanks for all your help.
undbund wrote:
> On Apr 14, 1:21 am, Jerry Stuckle
>> undbund wrote:
>>> On Apr 12, 1:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle
>>>> undbund wrote:
>>>>> On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
>>>>>>> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
>>>>>>>> Sandy wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
>>>>>>>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
>>>>>>>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
>>>>>>>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
>>>>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
>>>>>>>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
>>>>>>>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
>>>>>>>>> SMTP localhost
>>>>>>>>> smtp_port 25
>>>>>>>>> in your php.ini
>>>>>>>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
>>>>>>>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
>>>>>>>>> /sandy
>>>>>>>>> http://myphpquiz.com/
>>>>>>>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
>>>>>>>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
>>>>>>>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
>>>>>>>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
>>>>>>>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
>>>>>>>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
>>>>>>>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
>>>>>>>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
>>>>>>>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
>>>>>>>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
>>>>>>>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
>>>>>>>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
>>>>>>>> add the ssl stuff..
>>>>>>> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
>>>>>>> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
>>>>>>> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
>>>>>>> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
>>>>>>> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
>>>>>>> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
>>>>>>> me some directions.
>>>>>>> Thanks for all your help.
>>>>>> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
>>>>>> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
>>>>>> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
>>>>>> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
>>>>>> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
>>>>>> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
>>>>>> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
>>>>>> it gets to the site.
>>>>>> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
>>>>>> know what kind of answers others might need.
>>>>>> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
>>>>>> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
>>>>>> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
>>>>>> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
>>>>>> worth the trouble.
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Twayne
>>>>>> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
>>>>>> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
>>>>> Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
>>>>> local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
>>>>> But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
>>>>> For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
>>>>> connection using direct connection.
>>>>> How would I put this information in php.ini
>>>>> Thanks
>>>> mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
>>>> should help (and make things easier).
>>>> --
>>>> ==================
>>>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>>>> Jerry Stuckle
>>>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>>>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
>>>> ==================
>>> Hi, Thanks guys for your help, I have used PHPmailer to send
>>> newsletters from localhost. However the images don't show up. So I
>>> would like to convert the html file to PDF. Do you guys know of a
>>> really good php script that can do this?
>> Rather than create a PDF (which will be larger and won't display inline
>> on the user's mail reader), I'd suggest you figure out the problem with
>> them not showing up and fix that.
>>
>> Not having your code to generate the html, we have no idea how to help you.
>>
>>
>>
>>> By the way, how do you make this code work?
>>
>>
>>> Connection Interrupted, The network link was interrupted while
>>> negotiating a connection. Please try again.
>> Nothing in your code that I can see should cause that problem. Network
>> timeout, maybe?
>>
>> --
>> ==================
>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
>> ==================
>
> Well to fix the problem, I would have to ftp images to an online
> server and code the html page to pull images from that online server.
> I don't want to do this. I am creating an offline package that should
> do everything from an offline server. Since there will only be a
> localhost and not an actual domain, i won't be able to link the images
> to the offline server. So the best idea would be able to attach a pdf
> of the newsletter and send it.
>
OK, so you're doing everything from an offline server. You can put the
images on the localhost, also. And you can include the images in the
email - I get dozens of newsletters a day with images in the email itself.
> So any good PHP free, open source scripts that can covert html to pdf?
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
Don't know of any, but then this isn't the place to ask. If you want to
create pdf's with PHP, there's the fpdf package which works well.
But be prepared to lose readers.
--
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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
==================
On Apr 14, 10:30 am, Jerry Stuckle
> undbund wrote:
> > On Apr 14, 1:21 am, Jerry Stuckle
> >> undbund wrote:
> >>> On Apr 12, 1:26 pm, Jerry Stuckle
> >>>> undbund wrote:
> >>>>> On Apr 10, 4:37 am, "Twayne"
> >>>>>>> On Apr 9, 2:51 pm, Michael Austin
> >>>>>>>> Sandy wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Apr 8, 7:12 pm,undbund
> >>>>>>>>>> Hi I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> >>>>>>>>>> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone on
> >>>>>>>>>> the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
> >>>>>>>>>> this.
> >>>>>>>>> Usual and easiest way is to have two components: some kind of a
> >>>>>>>>> mailer (like sendmail) and your program submitting messages to it.
> >>>>>>>>> So you have sendmail installed and:
> >>>>>>>>> SMTP localhost
> >>>>>>>>> smtp_port 25
> >>>>>>>>> in your php.ini
> >>>>>>>>> in your program you call mail($email, $subject, $message) and
> >>>>>>>>> sendmail will take care of the rest
> >>>>>>>>> /sandy
> >>>>>>>>>http://myphpquiz.com/
> >>>>>>>> Be aware that if you do not have ReverseDNS to the IP address of your
> >>>>>>>> mail server or you are using DynamicDNS from dsl, cablemodem or
> >>>>>>>> dialup it will more than likely be rejected. And if you use your ISP
> >>>>>>>> mail servers, if you send too many in an hour, my get flagged as a
> >>>>>>>> spammer and they will shut you down. Some ISP's have gone so far as
> >>>>>>>> to not allow port 25 outbound from these "dialup" ip addresses. AT&T
> >>>>>>>> recently instituted such practices - sounds like a lawsuit to me.
> >>>>>>>> If you use your "gmail" or your own domain in your FROM/REPLY TO:
> >>>>>>>> addresses, you must register as valid address coming from your ISP
> >>>>>>>> username/pwd also requiring SSL encryption of all mail. You will
> >>>>>>>> most likely need to locate php/sasl to use from your server.
> >>>>>>>> A good mailer is phpmailer will do most of this, but you will need to
> >>>>>>>> add the ssl stuff..
> >>>>>>> Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am told the software will have to
> >>>>>>> run on Windows machine. I have been researching on the internet and
> >>>>>>> found out about XAMPP. It comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL and and
> >>>>>>> Mercury mail server. I am not able to get it working to send mail from
> >>>>>>> localhost to internet. I will try your methods to get it working. If
> >>>>>>> you guys have managed to make it work with XAMPP. Can you please give
> >>>>>>> me some directions.
> >>>>>>> Thanks for all your help.
> >>>>>> I'm a newbie, but have xampp's apache/php/sql all in one installed;
> >>>>>> works great, only using locally. I am sending e-mail to multiple
> >>>>>> recipients using its standard mail() function and it works fine.
> >>>>>> Responses to form submissions go back to the questioner and three other
> >>>>>> interested parties; it all worked first time every time when I uploaded
> >>>>>> the code to the site. Locally I purposely let it fail when it can't
> >>>>>> find port25 'cause the rest is known to work locally and works 100% when
> >>>>>> it gets to the site.
> >>>>>> Not sure what directions to give; it just works. I'm too newbie to
> >>>>>> know what kind of answers others might need.
> >>>>>> I will say it's better to manually install xampp; same results, but you
> >>>>>> get to figure out a lot of the nuances by doing the install on your own.
> >>>>>> So, after I'd used the all in one enough to know a little about it, I
> >>>>>> wiped it out and did a manual install. Had some problems but it was
> >>>>>> worth the trouble.
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> Twayne
> >>>>>> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
> >>>>>> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacementwww.openoffice.org
> >>>>> Hi Guys, I have managed to make the Mercury mail server send mail from
> >>>>> local host to my yahoo mail using Google SMTP.
> >>>>> But I do not know how to put the settings in php.ini.
> >>>>> For sending mail via Google SMTP you will need port 465 and SSL
> >>>>> connection using direct connection.
> >>>>> How would I put this information in php.ini
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>> mail() itself doesn't do ssl. Check out the Pear::Mail class, which
> >>>> should help (and make things easier).
> >>>> --
> >>>> ==================
> >>>> Remove the "x" from my email address
> >>>> Jerry Stuckle
> >>>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> >>>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> >>>> ==================
> >>> Hi, Thanks guys for your help, I have used PHPmailer to send
> >>> newsletters from localhost. However the images don't show up. So I
> >>> would like to convert the html file to PDF. Do you guys know of a
> >>> really good php script that can do this?
> >> Rather than create a PDF (which will be larger and won't display inline
> >> on the user's mail reader), I'd suggest you figure out the problem with
> >> them not showing up and fix that.
>
> >> Not having your code to generate the html, we have no idea how to help you.
>
> >>> By the way, how do you make this code work?
> >>
>
> >>> Connection Interrupted, The network link was interrupted while
> >>> negotiating a connection. Please try again.
> >> Nothing in your code that I can see should cause that problem. Network
> >> timeout, maybe?
>
> >> --
> >> ==================
> >> Remove the "x" from my email address
> >> Jerry Stuckle
> >> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> >> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> >> ==================
>
> > Well to fix the problem, I would have to ftp images to an online
> > server and code the html page to pull images from that online server.
> > I don't want to do this. I am creating an offline package that should
> > do everything from an offline server. Since there will only be a
> > localhost and not an actual domain, i won't be able to link the images
> > to the offline server. So the best idea would be able to attach a pdf
> > of the newsletter and send it.
>
> OK, so you're doing everything from an offline server. You can put the
> images on the localhost, also. And you can include the images in the
> email - I get dozens of newsletters a day with images in the email itself.
>
> > So any good PHP free, open source scripts that can covert html to pdf?
>
> > Thanks for all your help.
>
> Don't know of any, but then this isn't the place to ask. If you want to
> create pdf's with PHP, there's the fpdf package which works well.
>
> But be prepared to lose readers.
>
> --
> ==================
> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================
Thanks Jerry, why didn't I think of this rather then searching for
conversion scripts?. I can use phpmailer to attach all the images and
the index.html and send them. Thanks for this great idea, you have
saved me from a lot of pain.
Thanks for all your help.
Undbund
On Apr 8, 7:12 pm, undbund
>
> I am creating a newsletter system. The software should run from
> desktop computer (localhost) but be able to send email to anyone
> on the internet. Can you guys give me some ideas on how to achieve
> this.
Use an outside SMTP server. To connect to that server and send mail
through it, use phpMailer:
http://phpmailer.sf.net/
Cheers,
NC