smtp url for a newsletter script

[arabnity]

Hi there,
I need to insert the smtp url in the config file of a newsletter script I have downloaded. does anyone know what that might be?
Thank you!
Arabnity.

[Gwaihir]

Do you have to use SMTP? Can't you use the local mail function instead?

SMTP won't work with just the URL, you'll need to authorize yourself too, with a proper e-mail account name and password (to avoid spammers using the service) So unless you can make those settings in your script too, you won't get it to work through SMTP.

But don't despair yet: many of those scripts are set up to use SMTP ONLY if you fill out an SMTP url, if you don't they use local mail.

[jason]

If you do need to use the SMTP url, just use localhost and it should let you send without a username and password. That is essentially what the mail() command is doing when you use it.

--Jason

[arabnity]

thanks for the info!