Installing SendMail

[Wade Smart]

06272006 1908 GMT-6

All Im doing is developing the school systems online apps. Many of the
apps need to be able to send mail so, I need to be able to send email
from the php apps Im creating on my own system. If I can do this another
way - Im all for it. 

wade

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 20:06 -0400, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
> > 06272006 1604 GMT-6
> > 
> > After all these years I have not ever had to write code to send email -
> > until now. My php tutorial says that Unix uses sendmail. I looked in
> > Synaptic and saw that sendmail is not installed. So, if I install it,
> > will that interfere with my email client getting email from my isp
> > server or cause any other problems? And, what all do I need to install
> > -> sendmail base and???
> > 
> 
> Sendmail is the old Unix mail server, it has been supplanted by Postfix
> and Qmail.  However, do you really need it?  These days, most desktop
> PCs have no need to run their own mail server.
> 
> What precisely are you trying to do?  Are you writing a PHP program to
> send out mail?
>