Hello

On my linode I want to use Google's smtp servers to send some emails. I have the mailx program installed and this works great from bash.

# echo "This is a test email" | mail -v -s "Test email" someone@somewhere.com

All I need is to be able to provide the body, subject and to address from a PHP script and forward it to bash (anyway to do it inside PHP?) so it can send it away. I just need to send emails.. and can't get sendmail package working.

I am not much of a programmer so any help is very appreciated.. I was thinking of something along the lines.

<?php
mailfunction ($to, $body, $subject) {
    echo exec('echo $body | mail -v -s $subject $to');
>

Any chance something like that can work? Or if the syntax of the "echo" command inside exec is even correct. Thanks for any help/pointers.

You probably shouldn't use exec like that, but anyway.

First google result:

http://email.about.com/od/emailprogramm ... g_Mail.htm

that google result is more geared towards php running in a windows environment. I know php is the same, but I tried using what they are saying and got nowhere.

Now I am looking at using PHPMailer.. still no luck tho.

Edit: Just to clarify I don't have any mail servers (sendmail, postfix, exim etc.) running.. just trying to send mail with php (have pear extension). Is this even doable? I have seen a ton of posts on the net regarding this but really nothing has worked for me.