How to send mail using PHP?

Question

I\'m using Windows Vista OS. PHP, MySQL as the database and Apache web server.

I want to send notification to those who want to join in my site. But the problem is w

Answer 1

You have several options:

• there's built in mail function, but it requires that some MTA is running on the machine, doesn't support authentication, and you'll need to work hard to send attachments
• there's Pear Mail package, if you like to use Pear stuff
• there's a good PHPMailer class which I used in past few years and it works really great. It like it because it is very simple and easy to include in your project (just a simple include call), yet powerful