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PHP sending mail

PHP sending mail

Posted Feb 15, 2007 15:17 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Linux botnets by NAR
Parent article: Linux botnets

The local SMTP server can do its own checking to detect and block outgoing spam.

It can also queue the real messages when the recipient's mail server is temporarily
unavailable; sending directly from PHP can't do that.


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