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Asked: 2026-05-14T05:59:13+00:00

I’m working on my first PHP project, and it’s going well. I’ve been able

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I’m working on my first PHP project, and it’s going well. I’ve been able to figure out how to do most of what I need so far, but there’s one big problem for me now: E-mail.

I’m on a shared server, so I can’t install PEAR, and I can’t modify my php.ini. According to my host’s very limited documentation, I have to use SMTP so I can’t (correct me if I’m wrong) use the mail() function. So does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? At this point I just want to send a basic text message, so where would I specify my SMTP port number, user, password and so on? Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    Chances are that your provider has configured the mail() command already to it uses the right SMTP server. Providers usually do that. I would try that out first.

    If it really doesn’t work that way, use a mailer class like phpMailer. With that, you can specify the exact SMTP server to use.

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