-From The Philippines.

i set in $smptOptions : ‘username’ => ‘my-email’ and no matter what i set in ->setFrom(other-email), i always receive email from “my-email”.
so if i want an online form for sending emails, and someone send me an email i cant reply it cause when i click reply, it replies to myself..

Thanks from Brazil!

look Zend_Application_Resource_Mail in http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.application.available-resources.html

Anyway. I understand your concerns and I’m often hindered by a blocked port myself. But besides having to code PHP I’m a mailserver administrator who needs to fight those *censored* *censored* *censored* idiots who use our internet to do their bad stuff.

And after all there are ways to work around a blocked port 25 while developing. E.g. a local mailserver or simply creating an application that authenticates itself while using the ISPs mailserver.

I’m fairly sure that Zend_Mail supports authenticated sending over a different port than 25 . (Need to check though).

A big problem with port 587 is that most mailserver administrators don’t know it either. :-/ There was a time when admins knew their RFCs… damn – I’m getting old.

First of all, I didn’t think my first comment was so slanderous, regardless, I’m sorry you found my tone “mocking”. When I state that a firewall is annoying, it is! Especially when a developer is trying to build a web application!

I disagree with forced port blocking, since it sounds like a way to stop spamming however I think it’s just a means for ISP’s to charge “business rates” for unblocked ports.

Thanks for mentioning port 587, as I hadn’t heard of it before.

Clients that need to send mail should use port 587 (“submission”). This is described in RFC 2476 that is about 11 years old now.

This distinction simply needs to get into the heads of all mail server administrators and us of course. Since Port 587 requires authentication it would be a lot harder for Spammers to send out their crap. And if they misuse an account it’s a lot easier to figure that out and block it.

Providers that block port 25 outgoing from all machines on their internal network (but official mailservers) actually help to fight spam.

If you really need your own mailserver make sure it uses your providers machine as a smarthost and you’re done.

PS: Yes, there are caveats, but those lurk everywhere.

getOption(‘email’);

$smtpHost = $emailConfig['transportOptionsSmtp']['host'];
unset($emailConfig['transportOptionsSmtp']['host']);

$mailTransport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp($smtpHost, $emailConfig['transportOptionsSmtp']);

Zend_Mail::setDefaultTransport($mailTransport);
}
}