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PHP or SMTP Email Method

by garfield29
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Hi!

I got across a plug-in which makes me choose what method to use for sending out emails: PHP or SMTP.

I'm not quite sure what this means and what are their advantages over the other.

I need some ideas about this.

Thanks
#email #method #php #smtp
  • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
    PHP and SMTP are two entirely different things SMTP is a protocol i.e. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. PHP is a scripting language So it is something you might use to write an email routine to send email from a webform. I don't really know much about PHP but I'm pretty sure it has native classes to send email which would use the SMTP server you would specify. In fact I'm pretty sure it has pre defined variables for all your email parts like "Subject", "Address" etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author garfield29
    Thanks for the information.

    If I use SMTP, I think this is not a free service. Do you know any reliable company for this service?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Killian
      Originally Posted by garfield29 View Post

      Thanks for the information.

      If I use SMTP, I think this is not a free service. Do you know any reliable company for this service?
      I have not used this service, only heard it recommended:

      SMTP Relay Server: App and Transactional Email Delivery by SendGrid

      Basically you can use this kind of service to send emails, with SMTP that are suppose to have a higher delivery rate. Suppose to work well with Wordpress blogs.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
        All internet mail servers are SMTP servers. Here's an example of what I'm talking about . I have a website hosted on Hostgator called "net2rd.com" Hostgator gives email with my domain. My SMTP server is "mail.net2rd.com". Host gator is running servers with SMTP server software Their DNS servers have zones defined for my domains i.e "mail.net2rd.com" so when other internet servers send mail to someone@net2rd.com it finds my mail server "mail.net2rd.com".

        All mail on the internet moves around between and through SMTP servers.
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  • Profile picture of the author garfield29
    Thank you for your information and explanation.

    I'm getting the idea now.

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