http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:13:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-3754 PAULSC Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:05:15 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html#comment-3754 I'm surprised Dreamhost would require Web host customers to do SMTP authentication in their Web applications; this is a function handled much better by the Dreamhost SMTP servers themselves, which can work from a dedicated DNS cache, and locally cached blacklists/whitelists or . That's easier for you, the Web hosting customer, and a lot more efficient for them, in terms of bandwidth and running block lists. Are you sure they are telling you, that you have to do the authentication, or just informing you that if you use their SMTP servers, your outgoing mail addresses must authenticate to be sent? Edit: OK, I see from the following that they are wanting your account name/password to authenticate to their SMTP servers to send. You can just script that as part of a custom mail function you call, formatting messages to and from their SMTP hosts. The second link below has example php code using PEAR that does that. PEAR is available on Dreamhost servers, according to the (unofficial) third link, at least through PHP5. I’m surprised Dreamhost would require Web host customers to do SMTP authentication in their Web applications; this is a function handled much better by the Dreamhost SMTP servers themselves, which can work from a dedicated DNS cache, and locally cached blacklists/whitelists or . That’s easier for you, the Web hosting customer, and a lot more efficient for them, in terms of bandwidth and running block lists.
Are you sure they are telling you, that you have to do the authentication, or just informing you that if you use their SMTP servers, your outgoing mail addresses must authenticate to be sent?
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OK, I see from the following that they are wanting your account name/password to authenticate to their SMTP servers to send. You can just script that as part of a custom mail function you call, formatting messages to and from their SMTP hosts. The second link below has example php code using PEAR that does that. PEAR is available on Dreamhost servers, according to the (unofficial) third link, at least through PHP5.

]]> http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-3753 NC Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:23:17 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html#comment-3753 SMTP authentication isn't exactly the simplest thing in the world to accomplish, so you may be better off integrating a third-party package. While PEAR may be an overkill, you might want to take a look at phpMailer instead: http://phpmailer.sf.net/ __________ SMTP authentication isn’t exactly the simplest thing in the world to accomplish, so you may be better off integrating a third-party package. While PEAR may be an overkill, you might want to take a look at phpMailer instead: http://phpmailer.sf.net/
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]]> http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html/comment-page-1#comment-3752 I8AShroo Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:10:57 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/smtp-authentication-with-php.html#comment-3752 It's odd that you're getting that message. I use Dreamhost as well and use the standard mail() function on several sites without authentication or error. EDIT: Added the link to the Dreamhost wiki on php mail(). Doesn't mention anything about requiring authentication and saw many posts on the Dreamhost forum saying the same. It’s odd that you’re getting that message. I use Dreamhost as well and use the standard mail() function on several sites without authentication or error.
EDIT: Added the link to the Dreamhost wiki on php mail(). Doesn’t mention anything about requiring authentication and saw many posts on the Dreamhost forum saying the same.

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