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The Cron utility of emails the output and errors of an executed job to the appropriate Linux user. This requires a properly setup mail server such as sendmail.
However you can use msmtp (an SMTP client) to receive emails from cron jobs to each users’ preferred email ID through your preferred email provider.
Make sure msmtp is installed and configured by following the instructions here.Continue Reading…
The PHP mail function is a wonderful feature of PHP but like all good things in life this function also has many drawbacks. On a Linux platform it requires sendmail to be installed, but coming to windows a SMTP server is needed to send email. So if you take a peak inside the php.ini file you’ll find the following line
[mail function] ; For Win32 only. SMTP = localhost smtp_port = 25
But the limitation here is you can only specify the SMTP server name and port, if the server requires authentication there is no provision for specifying the username and password. So unless you have a mail server configured to send local email without authentication there is no way to use the php mail() to send emails.Continue Reading…
