I have reposted this question - it had been removed by the editors
because my payment details were incorrect - I noticed there were
comments on this previously which I did not get chance to see - if you
added a comment last time - can you do this again? Sorry.

Hi there,

I have a lycos UK webspace and email account from which I would like
to send mail from - however i would like to send it from my local XP
machine.

I am connecting sucessfully to the correct smtp server (have amended
the php.ini file - however I am getting the following error.

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 553 <{my lycos email is here}>:
Sender address rejected: not logged in in {my local script name here}

Is there any php.ini settings or mail() parameters I can set to log me
in automatically, or is this something lycos would control?

When my script is loaded on the webspace I don't have this problem of
needing to login - even though I am not actually logged in - ie by
just going to the website is enough.

I don't know what Lycos are running - would presume Linux.

Can this be done? If it can, and you post an example I'll tip $15.

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Clarification of Question by document123-ga on 07 Jan 2005 07:19 PST

Thanks for the info crythias - might give the pear extension a go first.

The anglemail website seems to be offline at the moment - but that
sounds good - but might not be able to use it in this instance.

Anyone else got suggestions??

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Clarification of Question by document123-ga on 14 Jan 2005 06:08 PST

Ok I thought I'd put my stuff here.

After a lot of playing around and connecting to the SMTP server using
phpmailer - it appears that Lycos don't support direct SMTP access
(for free webspaces at least).

I managed to figure out logging in directly is a command which is
disabled - probably very good security reasons.

And I wrote a long diatribe, too...

Basically, it involved http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net, Pear::Mail
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail, or www.anglemail.org.

The first two provide SMTP authentication. The third is an option to
provide webmail on your own server.

Last, I said that you could just call the PHP running on your server
from your desktop, but some safeguards should be in place so you're
the only one who can do it.

Once again, I'm not a GA Researcher, I can't be paid for this info,
disclaimer below applies, etc.