Setting up a Ubuntu/Apache/PHP machine to send email

Question

I am working for a small Ho Chi Minh City company whose only server was just one old small computer. Now just a few months later, we are expanding rapidly and one of the req

Answer 1

I recommend installing Postfix MTA to send e-mails out the Ubuntu server:

aptitude install postfix

And using the PHP Mailer class to send e-mails from PHP: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/

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For "fully featured" e-mail services my recipe is:

Postfix + DKIM-proxy + Dovecot + Roundcube + PHP Mailer + SpamAssassin + proper DNS settings + SSL certificate to enable encrypted connections

(And I prefer NginX as HTTP server...)