i just installed the phpb3 – and skipped the email-configuration-steps within the installation-process. at the moment i want to check all the options i have.
a. the mailfunction that makes usage of SMTP
b. the mailfunction that makes usage of the native mail () function
in this thread i want to get to know how to test the mail – with the native mail-function.
this is about sending emails from my board, what if
- i want to disable the use of SMTP (localhost) and
- switch to the native php mail() function.
preliminaries: should i change the configuration within my PHPBB ADMIN panel and then after wards when i try to send an email-
I supposed it was caused by the hosting blocking the mail() function but they told me it is working, and I verified this using this simple php test page, which actually is working fine:
