Sending Mail in php from localhost

Question

I want to send mail through PHP without using SMTP server like gmail. It should be send from localhost only.

Is it possible?

I have tried using mail() function and configured php.ini file for that.But no luck — Ankit21ks, Aug 04 '15 at 07:02
Read here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5335273/how-to-send-an-email-using-php — martynasma, Aug 04 '15 at 07:04
if your server is *nix, you could possibly use something like `system("sendmail ...")`. though i don't know about possible security problems with that approach. see http://www.postfix.org/sendmail.1.html — hoijui, Aug 04 '15 at 07:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '15 at 08:22

If you want to send mail only to local users on a *nix system, you can use the systems mail command. It would work like this:

$pp = popen('mail -s "subject" jdoe', 'w');
fwrite($pp, $content);
pclose($pp);

where subject is to be replaced with the actual subject, jdoe with the target user account and $content should hold the desired content.

Every other way of sending mail involves SMTP. If you do not want to use mail() or an API, you will have to implement it yourself on sockets basis.

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